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Peter Atkins

1940 - Today

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Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Atkins is the 452nd most popular chemist (down from 423rd in 2019), the 2,933rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,509th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Atkins ranks 452 out of 602. Before him are James Crafts, Constantin Fahlberg, J. L. B. Smith, Auguste Laurent, Gaston Tissandier, and John Tukey. After him are Benjamin List, Johann Schweigger, Nikolay Zinin, Peter Armbruster, Kathleen Lonsdale, and Nikolay Beketov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Peter Atkins ranks 274. Before him are Andres Tarand, Russell Banks, Yozhef Sabo, Chip Taylor, Brigitte Hamann, and Lainie Kazan. After him are Imre Komora, Bruce Beresford, Mario Zanin, Tony Allen, Margit Carstensen, and Luis María Echeberría.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Atkins ranks 2,934 out of 8,785. Before him are Rachel Roberts (1927), C. Aubrey Smith (1863), Bridget Riley (1931), Barry Jackson (1938), Henry of Scotland (1115), and Ian Rankin (1960). After him are Richard Bright (1789), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Max Horton (1883), Galyani Vadhana (1923), and Lottie Dod (1871).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Peter Atkins ranks 58. Before him are Arthur Aikin (1773), Luke Howard (1772), Henry Roscoe (1833), John William Draper (1811), William Gregor (1761), and Alexander William Williamson (1824). After him are John Mayow (1640), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), William Nicholson (1753), Edward Charles Howard (1774), and John Walker (1781).

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