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Neil Bartlett

1932 - 2008

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Neil Bartlett (15 September 1932 – 5 August 2008) was a British chemist who specialized in fluorine and compounds containing fluorine, and became famous for creating the first noble gas compounds. He taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Neil Bartlett is the 536th most popular chemist (down from 531st in 2019), the 4,230th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,378th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Neil Bartlett ranks 536 out of 602Before him are Marc Delafontaine, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Nikolai Menshutkin, Ida Freund, Friedrich Accum, and Aleksandr Arbuzov. After him are Mary L. Good, Sabir Yunusov, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Gustav Rose, Johannes Wislicenus, and Robin Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Neil Bartlett ranks 386Before him are Lewis Binford, Sándor Mátrai, Ramón Tapia, István Bilek, Milunka Lazarević, and Jay Miner. After him are Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Eeles Landström, Robert H. Dennard, Bo Goldman, Hjördis Nordin, and Luís Vinício. Among people deceased in 2008, Neil Bartlett ranks 278Before him are Gustaw Holoubek, Elizabeth Spriggs, Annemarie Renger, Cachao, Miroslav Koranda, and Norman Smith. After him are Tony Duvert, Frederick Seitz, Irmgard Praetz, Jimmy Giuffre, Gabriel París Gordillo, and Cecilia Colledge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Neil Bartlett ranks 4,231 out of 8,785Before him are Florence Pugh (1996), Norman Smith (1923), Horatio Caro (1862), Samuel Palmer (1805), Richard Price (1723), and Henry Litolff (1818). After him are George Rodger (1908), Peter Davison (1951), Joe Cole (1981), Stanley Morison (1889), Fred Karno (1866), and David Wilkie (1785).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Neil Bartlett ranks 68Before him are William Nicholson (1753), Edward Charles Howard (1774), John Walker (1781), William Hallowes Miller (1801), David MacMillan (1968), and Charles Blagden (1748). After him are Robin Hill (1899), John Roebuck (1718), Leslie Orgel (1927), Carol V. Robinson (1956), John George Children (1777), and Martyn Poliakoff (1947).