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Ellen Swallow Richards

1842 - 1911

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Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (née Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Richards graduated from Westford Academy (second oldest secondary school in Massachusetts) in 1862. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ellen Swallow Richards is the 244th most popular economist (down from 234th in 2019), the 5,049th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,253rd in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 244 out of 414. Before her are Arthur Melvin Okun, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Grigory Yavlinsky, Guy Standing, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher. After her are Harold Laski, Adam Müller, Andreas Kaplan, Dennis Meadows, Ragnar Nurkse, and Étienne Laspeyres.

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Among people born in 1842, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 65. Before her are Carl Millöcker, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alessandro Fortis, Stojan Novaković, François Hennebique, and Wilhelm Jordan. After her are Antero de Quental, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Berthold Delbrück, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, and Heinrich Martin Weber. Among people deceased in 1911, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 56. Before her are Ivan Grohar, Fritz von Uhde, Joan Maragall, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Thomas Blake Glover, and Adolf Bernhard Meyer. After her are Quanah Parker, Howard Pyle, Florentino Ameghino, Alphonse Legros, Carolina Coronado, and Nikolay Beketov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 5,049 out of 20,380. Before her are Peggy Whitson (1960), Susan Brownmiller (1935), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Edwin Drake (1819), Steve James (1952), and Roy E. Disney (1930). After her are Don Adams (1923), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Eve Arnold (1912), Harry Stenqvist (1893), Mickey Mantle (1931), and Edgar Leonard (1881).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Ellen Swallow Richards ranks 83. Before her are Hyman Minsky (1919), Thomas Sowell (1930), Paul Volcker (1927), Douglas Diamond (1953), Chester Barnard (1886), and Arthur Melvin Okun (1928). After her are Dennis Meadows (1942), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Leo Huberman (1903), Joshua Angrist (1960), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), and Philip H. Dybvig (1955).

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