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Emma P. Carr

1880 - 1972

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Emma Perry Carr (July 23, 1880 – January 7, 1972) was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator. Her work on unsaturated hydrocarbons and absorption spectra earned her the inaugural Francis P. Garvan Medal (now the Garvan–Olin Medal) from the American Chemical Society in 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emma P. Carr is the 552nd most popular chemist (up from 571st in 2019), the 9,124th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,489th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Emma P. Carr ranks 552 out of 602Before her are Nikodem Caro, Frederick G. Donnan, Bruce Alberts, Hans Goldschmidt, John Roebuck, and Lev Chugaev. After her are Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Florence B. Seibert, Jürgen Hennig, Peter Jacob Hjelm, Edith M. Flanigen, and Carl Jacob Löwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Emma P. Carr ranks 202Before her are Marcel Van Crombrugge, Oskar Perron, Gorch Fock, Luis Alberto Riart, Enrique Olaya Herrera, and Einar Arnórsson. After her are Russell Simpson, Max Schöne, Lev Shcherba, Majit Gafuri, Fernand Feyaerts, and Rudolf Cvetko. Among people deceased in 1972, Emma P. Carr ranks 227Before her are Andreas Cervin, Werner Klingler, Boris Livanov, Henry Dreyfuss, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Martin Schröttle. After her are François Devries, Moe Berg, Adriaan Fokker, Józef Lange, John Berryman, and Betty Blythe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Emma P. Carr ranks 9,126 out of 20,380Before her are Peter Berg (1962), Rob Portman (1955), Shane McMahon (1970), Alfred E. Green (1889), Leon Shamroy (1901), and John Billingsley (1960). After her are Takeoff (1994), Walt Bellamy (1939), William Hogenson (1884), Michael Rapaport (1970), Bubba Ray Dudley (1971), and Tony Dalton (1975).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Emma P. Carr ranks 97Before her are Michael Behe (1952), Darleane C. Hoffman (1926), Robert Jarvik (1946), Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925), Mary L. Good (1931), and Bruce Alberts (1938). After her are Florence B. Seibert (1897), Edith M. Flanigen (1929), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Anna J. Harrison (1912), Wallace Smith Broecker (1931), and Barbara Askins (1939).