The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from Jordan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Jordanian Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Jordan. This makes Jordan the birth place of the 49th most number of Chemists behind Kuwait, and Nigeria.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jordanian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Jordanian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Omar M. Yaghi (b. 1965)

With an HPI of 48.57, Omar M. Yaghi is the most famous Jordanian Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Omar M. Yaghi (Arabic: عمر مونّس ياغي; born February 9, 1965) holds the title of University Professor, the highest academic rank, along with the James and Neeltje Tretter Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an affiliate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences as well as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jordanian chemists born between 1965 and 1965. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jordanian chemists include Omar M. Yaghi. As of April 2024, 1 new Jordanian chemists have been added to Pantheon including Omar M. Yaghi.

Living Jordanian Chemists

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Newly Added Jordanian Chemists (2024)

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