CHEMIST

William Lipscomb

1919 - 2011

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Lipscomb has received more than 135,335 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). William Lipscomb is the 224th most popular chemist (up from 229th in 2019), the 1,399th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,523rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of William Lipscombs by language

Over the past year William Lipscomb has had the most page views in the with 14,191 views, followed by Chinese (1,901), and Spanish (1,418). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (169.72%), Ido (77.37%), and Scottish Gaelic (69.64%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Lipscomb ranks 224 out of 602. Before him are Stephanie Kwolek, Franz Karl Achard, Derek Barton, Aaron Klug, Rodney Robert Porter, and Alfred G. Gilman. After him are Herbert C. Brown, Jacques Dubochet, Hartmut Michel, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, S. P. L. Sørensen, and Hideki Shirakawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, William Lipscomb ranks 51. Before him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Siad Barre, Donald J. Cram, Chavela Vargas, and Martin Balsam. After him are Joseph Murray, Daniel Bell, Mohamed Boudiaf, Ashraf Pahlavi, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Ryszard Kaczorowski. Among people deceased in 2011, William Lipscomb ranks 58. Before him are Alberto Granado, Pete Postlethwaite, Linda Christian, Lucian Freud, Maria Schneider, and Valentin Ivanov. After him are Madame Nhu, Dev Anand, Roberts Blossom, Bubba Smith, Walter Bonatti, and Daniel Bell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lipscomb ranks 1,399 out of 20,380. Before him are John Brown (1800), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Dirk Benedict (1945), Don Cherry (1936), Josiah Warren (1798), and Alfred G. Gilman (1941). After him are Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Dempsey (1895), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Sarah Knauss (1880), Peter Weller (1947), and Martha Nussbaum (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, William Lipscomb ranks 46. Before him are John Fenn (1917), Wallace Carothers (1896), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Donald J. Cram (1919), Stephanie Kwolek (1923), and Alfred G. Gilman (1941). After him are Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Elias James Corey (1928), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), and Joseph L. Goldstein (1940).

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