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George Washington Carver

1864 - 1943

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George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century. While a professor at Tuskegee Institute, Carver developed techniques to improve types of soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Washington Carver is the 24th most popular chemist (up from 395th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,847th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, George Washington Carver ranks 24 out of 602. Before him are August Kekulé, William Ramsay, Adolf Windaus, Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, and John Macleod. After him are Fritz Haber, John Fenn, Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, and Hans Adolf Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, George Washington Carver ranks 5. Before him are Max Weber, Richard Strauss, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Wilhelm Wien. After him are Camille Claudel, Alois Alzheimer, Walther Nernst, Maurice Leblanc, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, and Alfred Hermann Fried. Among people deceased in 1943, George Washington Carver ranks 6. Before him are Nikola Tesla, David Hilbert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pieter Zeeman, and Karl Landsteiner. After him are Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Washington Carver ranks 163 out of 20,380. Before him are William Faulkner (1897), James Dean (1931), Steven Seagal (1952), Kirk Douglas (1916), Tina Turner (1939), and John Wayne (1907). After him are Katharine Hepburn (1907), Charles Francis Richter (1900), William James (1842), John Steinbeck (1902), Richard Gere (1949), and Carl Rogers (1902).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, George Washington Carver ranks 4. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), and Raymond Davis Jr. (1914). After him are John Fenn (1917), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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