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Clair Cameron Patterson

1922 - 1995

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Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College. He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In collaboration with George Tilton, Patterson developed the lead–lead dating method from the established procedures for uranium–lead dating. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clair Cameron Patterson is the 90th most popular biologist (up from 225th in 2019), the 819th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,121st in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 90 out of 1,097. Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, August Weismann, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Katherine Oppenheimer. After him are Alfred Hershey, Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, Aaron Ciechanover, and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 34. Before him are Agostinho Neto, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert W. Holley, Joan Fuster, Iannis Xenakis, and Telly Savalas. After him are Vittorio Gassman, Jason Robards, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Stanley Cohen, Otto Carius, and Nándor Hidegkuti. Among people deceased in 1995, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 25. Before him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Christian B. Anfinsen, Teresa Teng, William Alfred Fowler, Harold Wilson, and Patricia Highsmith. After him are U Nu, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Lana Turner, Souphanouvong, Donald Pleasence, and Georges J. F. Köhler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 819 out of 20,380. Before him are William Sadler (1950), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Stephen Collins (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Robert H. Goddard (1882), and Telly Savalas (1922). After him are Duke Ellington (1899), Robert Johnson (1911), Melvin Schwartz (1932), Brandon Lee (1965), Willis Carrier (1876), and Anastacia (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Clair Cameron Patterson ranks 11. Before him are George Smith (1941), Barbara McClintock (1902), Rachel Carson (1907), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), and Dian Fossey (1932). After him are Alfred Hershey (1908), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Sylvia Earle (1935), and John Hopfield (1933).

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