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William Lipscomb

1919 - 2011

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William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. (December 9, 1919 – April 14, 2011) was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Lipscomb is the 127th most popular chemist (up from 224th in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,399th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Lipscomb ranks 127 out of 602. Before him are William Crookes, George Porter, Richard Kuhn, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, S. P. L. Sørensen, and George Andrew Olah. After him are Paul Berg, Christian B. Anfinsen, William E. Moerner, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Richard R. Ernst, and Joseph Proust.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, William Lipscomb ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Murray, G. E. M. Anscombe, Giulio Andreotti, Choi Kyu-hah, Zhao Ziyang, and Moïse Tshombe. After him are Desmond Doss, Matilde Camus, Walter Scheel, Fausto Coppi, Pierre Trudeau, and Georgios Papadopoulos. Among people deceased in 2011, William Lipscomb ranks 23. Before him are Simon van der Meer, Rudolf Mössbauer, Ágota Kristóf, Joe Frazier, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Jack LaLanne. After him are Annie Girardot, Flórián Albert, John McCarthy, Ramiz Alia, Ralph M. Steinman, and Dennis Ritchie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Lipscomb ranks 654 out of 20,380. Before him are King C. Gillette (1855), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), David Carradine (1936), Gordon Allport (1897), Dian Fossey (1932), and Lucy Webb Hayes (1831). After him are Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (1959), William S. Burroughs (1914), Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), Dave Grohl (1969), and Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, William Lipscomb ranks 24. Before him are Stanford Moore (1913), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Irving Langmuir (1881), Melvin Calvin (1911), Gilbert N. Lewis (1875), and Edward W. Morley (1838). After him are Paul Berg (1926), Christian B. Anfinsen (1916), William E. Moerner (1953), Harold Urey (1893), Robert Burns Woodward (1917), and Paul Flory (1910).

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