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Eunice Newton Foote

1819 - 1888

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Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819 – September 30, 1888) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner. She was the first scientist to identify the insulating effect of certain gases, and that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the greenhouse effect. Born in Connecticut, Foote was raised in New York at the center of social and political movements of her day, such as the abolition of slavery, anti-alcohol activism, and women's rights. She attended the Troy Female Seminary and the Rensselaer School from age 17 to age 19, gaining a broad education in scientific theory and practice. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eunice Newton Foote is the 200th most popular inventor (down from 198th in 2019), the 3,296th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,893rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 200 out of 426. Before her are George de Mestral, Viktor Schauberger, Ottaviano Petrucci, Garrett Morgan, J. Presper Eckert, and Georges Claude. After her are Hovannes Adamian, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Josip Belušić, Max Skladanowsky, Reginald Fessenden, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 42. Before her are Felice Orsini, William A. Wheeler, Roger Fenton, Wilhelm Marr, Thomas A. Hendricks, and Franz Abt. After her are Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, Clément Juglar, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, and Pieter Bleeker. Among people deceased in 1888, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 42. Before her are Josif Pančić, Vsevolod Garshin, Joseph Dietzgen, Matthew Arnold, Gustave Boulanger, and Princess Marie Amelie of Baden. After her are Jean-Delphin Alard, Eugène Marin Labiche, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Philip Sheridan, Henri Herz, and Mikhail Loris-Melikov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 3,296 out of 20,380. Before her are Dick Sargent (1930), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), James L. Brooks (1940), Paul Giamatti (1967), Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924), and Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949). After her are KRS-One (1965), Rebecca De Mornay (1959), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Fred Newhouse (1948), David Marks (1948), and Leon Russom (1941).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Eunice Newton Foote ranks 56. Before her are Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Larry Sanger (1968), Sequoyah (1770), Garrett Morgan (1877), and J. Presper Eckert (1919). After her are Royal Rife (1888), Melvil Dewey (1851), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Laurens Hammond (1895), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), and Philo Farnsworth (1906).

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