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Arthur Jeffrey Dempster

1886 - 1950

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Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (August 14, 1886 – March 11, 1950) was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery in 1935 of the uranium isotope 235U. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Jeffrey Dempster is the 538th most popular physicist (down from 487th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Canada (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 538 out of 851. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai, Gustave Trouvé, Maurice Karnaugh, Leona Woods, Ludvig Lorenz, and August Beer. After him are William Robert Grove, Ira Sprague Bowen, Joseph Larmor, Vladimir Steklov, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Pief Panofsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 171. Before him are Edgar Rubin, Pierre Benoit, Aloïse Corbaz, Georges Vantongerloo, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, and Stanisław Leśniewski. After him are Peter Freuchen, H.D., Barbara Karinska, Erich Salomon, Edward Lindberg, and Chester Conklin. Among people deceased in 1950, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 106. Before him are Ernst Wiechert, Dimitri Uznadze, Al Jolson, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Heinrich Tessenow, and Karin Michaëlis. After him are Harold Laski, Miklós Bánffy, Charles Gmelin, Ken Huszagh, Walton Walker, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 260 out of 1,622. Before him are Louis Jolliet (1645), Garou (1972), John T. Dunlap (1957), Robert Paul (1937), Viola Desmond (1914), and Gabrielle Roy (1909). After him are Roddy Piper (1954), Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (1975), Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907), Frank Dux (1956), Kenneth Welsh (1942), and Earl Thomson (1895).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ranks 7. Before him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Willard Boyle (1924), Jim Peebles (1935), Louis Slotin (1910), and Donna Strickland (1959). After him are Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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