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Christopher Kelk Ingold

1893 - 1970

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Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (28 October 1893 – 8 December 1970) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. He also was a co-author of the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules. Ingold is regarded as one of the chief pioneers of physical organic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christopher Kelk Ingold is the 482nd most popular chemist (up from 506th in 2019), the 3,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,651st in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Chemist.

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Among chemists, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 482 out of 602. Before him are K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Yellapragada Subbarow, Phoebus Levene, and Masatoshi Shima. After him are Ivan Horbachevsky, Archibald Scott Couper, Alwin Mittasch, William Nicholson, Allen J. Bard, and Edward Charles Howard.

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Among people born in 1893, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 196. Before him are Aleksandr Gauk, George Hodgson, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Ernst Grünfeld, Marcel Minnaert, and Norman Manley. After him are Marguerite Broquedis, Chang Taek-sang, I. A. Richards, Joseph Alzin, Konstantin Muraviev, and Alexander Ostrowski. Among people deceased in 1970, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 184. Before him are Karel Pešek, Julius Pokorny, Shoichi Sakata, Paul Schmidt, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, and Arne Nyberg. After him are Helene Madison, Inger Stevens, Cyril Scott, Pierre Veyron, Abraham Alikhanov, and Käthe Krauss.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 3,376 out of 8,785. Before him are Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Michael Ball (1962), Philip Reeve (1966), Ken Green (1924), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), and Charles Crichton (1910). After him are John Douglas (1830), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Warwick Davis (1970), Michael Gothard (1939), Albert Hill (1889), and George W. Campbell (1769).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Christopher Kelk Ingold ranks 60. Before him are Henry Roscoe (1833), John William Draper (1811), William Gregor (1761), Alexander William Williamson (1824), Peter Atkins (1940), and John Mayow (1640). After him are Archibald Scott Couper (1831), William Nicholson (1753), Edward Charles Howard (1774), John Walker (1781), William Hallowes Miller (1801), and David MacMillan (1968).

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