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Donald J. Cram

1919 - 2001

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Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host–guest chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald J. Cram is the 202nd most popular chemist (up from 217th in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,356th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Chemist.

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Among chemists, Donald J. Cram ranks 202 out of 602. Before him are Henry Taube, Paul L. Modrich, Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, Herbert C. Brown, and Wallace Carothers. After him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, Karl Barry Sharpless, and Alan MacDiarmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Donald J. Cram ranks 32. Before him are Margot Fonteyn, Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Pete Seeger, Nat King Cole, and Iris Murdoch. After him are Dino De Laurentiis, Abdirashid Shermarke, Andreas Papandreou, Leon Festinger, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and James M. Buchanan. Among people deceased in 2001, Donald J. Cram ranks 30. Before him are Fred Hoyle, Ernst Gombrich, Nikolay Basov, Morris, William Hanna, and Marie José of Belgium. After him are Timothy McVeigh, Masao Ono, Robert Ludlum, Carroll O'Connor, Douglas Adams, and Mohamed Atta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald J. Cram ranks 1,080 out of 20,380. Before him are Suzi Quatro (1950), Benjamin Thompson (1753), Judith Butler (1956), Kevin Kline (1947), Henry Mancini (1924), and Tobin Bell (1942). After him are Roy Cohn (1927), Arthur Kennedy (1914), Leon M. Lederman (1922), Richard Kiel (1939), John Searle (1932), and Keith Haring (1958).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Donald J. Cram ranks 49. Before him are Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Richard R. Schrock (1945), Julius Axelrod (1912), Paul L. Modrich (1946), Arthur Kornberg (1918), and Wallace Carothers (1896). After him are Robert H. Grubbs (1942), Robert F. Furchgott (1916), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Paul Lauterbur (1929), Stanley Miller (1930), and James B. Conant (1893).

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