User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom/sandbox/Rare Earths

Lists of articles with relevance to Rare Earths Attached comments give an assessment of their status at the beginning of the rare earths project at the Science History Institute, as reviewed on October 22, 2018.

Rare earth elements edit

Name Symbol Atomic number Page rating before ORES rating after Citations before Citations after
Scandium Sc 21 good B 46 53
Yttrium Y 39 featured B 72 83

Lanthanides edit

Name Symbol Atomic number Page rating before ORES rating after Citations before Citations after
Lanthanum La 57 good B 59 59
Cerium Ce 58 good fine 68 69
Praseodymium Pr 59 good B 49 49
Neodymium Nd 60 C B 30 39
Promethium Pm 61 good fine 62 64
Samarium Sm 62 good fine 98 104
Europium Eu 63 good good 65 71
Gadolinium Gd 64 C C 41 55
Terbium Tb 65 C good 16 29
Dysprosium Dy 66 good good 42 50
Holmium Ho 67 C good 25 32
Erbium Er 68 C C 20 28
Thulium Tm 69 good C 29 35
Ytterbium Yb 70 good good 55 56
Lutetium Lu 71 good C 37 45

Rare earth scientists edit

Name Birth-Death Country New article Major editing Page rating before ORES rating after Citations before Citations after
Carl Axel Arrhenius 1757 – 1824 Sweden   stub good 1 19
Carl Auer von Welsbach 1858 – 1929 Austria   start good 1 39
Nils Johan Berlin 1812 – 1891 Sweden   stub B 0 12
Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848 Sweden   start good 17 41
Hans Bethe 1906 – 2005 Germany good good 124 125
Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand 1826 – 1897 Sweden   stub C 3 16
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran 1838 – 1912 France   start B 3 22
Bohuslav Brauner 1855 – 1935 Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia   start start 4 9
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen 1811 – 1899 Germany start C 20 22
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke 1847 – 1931 United States C C 21 7
Per Teodor Cleve 1840 – 1905 Sweden start good 13 16
Charles D. Coryell 1912 – 1971 United States start C 14 16
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt 1722 – 1765 Sweden   start B 3 17
William Crookes 1832 – 1919 England   C fine 49 71
Marc Delafontaine 1837/1838 – 1911 Switzerland   stub start 0 10
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay 1852 – 1903 France   stub B 2 11
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg 1767 – 1813 Sweden   stub C 2 13
Olavi Erämetsä 1906 – 1974 Finland   C 0 20
Johan Gadolin 1760 – 1852 Sweden, Finland   start good 25 26
Gao Xiaoxia 1919–1998 China   B 0 19
Lawrence E. Glendenin 1918 – 2008 United States start C 8 10
Otto Hahn 1879 – 1968 Germany B good 68 67
Charles Hatchett 1765 – 1847 England   stub good 8 24
Wilhelm Hisinger 1766 – 1852 Sweden start start 5 8
Peter Jacob Hjelm 1746 – 1813 Sweden   stub start 2 10
Charles James 1880 – 1928 England   stub B 2 15
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff 1824 – 1887 Germany start C 8 13
Martin Heinrich Klaproth 1743 – 1817 Germany   start good 3 32
Wilhelm Klemm 1896 – 1985 Poland, Germany   good 0 69
Ignaz Kreidl 1869 – 1947 Austria-Hungary, United States   good 0 36
Willard Libby 1908 – 1980 United States good good 44 45
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac 1817-1894 Switzerland   start B 2 12
Jacob A. Marinsky 1918 – 2005 United States start C 8 10
Josef Mattauch 1895 – 1976 Austria-Hungary, Germany   start good 2 22
Herbert Newby McCoy 1870 – 1945 United States   stub C 1 9
Lise Meitner 1878 – 1968 Austria-Hungary, Germany, Sweden B fine 61 62
Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907 Russia C B 44 73 work needed
Carl Gustaf Mosander 1797 – 1858 Sweden   start B 0 17
Henry Moseley 1887 – 1915 England C good 23 28
Lars Fredrik Nilson 1840 – 1899 Sweden   start good 1 12
Wilhelm Ostwald 1853 – 1932 Germany   C C 12 16 work needed
Harold G. Richter 1925 – 2001 United States   C 0 23
Gustav Rose 1798 – 1873 Germany start C 5 8
Heinrich Rose 1795 – 1864 Germany stub start 4 12
Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets 1803 – 1870 Russia start start 5 5
Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786 Sweden, Germany B B 20 20 work needed
Emilio Segrè 1905 – 1989 Italy, United States good good 68 68
J. Lawrence Smith 1818 – 1883 United States   stub B 7 9
Jacques-Louis Soret 1827 – 1890 Switzerland   stub start 8 13
Frank Spedding 1902 – 1984 Canada, United States good good 36 36
Fritz Strassmann 1902 – 1980 Germany   start B 5 16
Georges Urbain 1872 – 1938 France   stub B 0 15
Friedrich Wöhler 1800 – 1882 Germany   C B 6 32 (updated; revisit if Keen's book becomes available)
Chien Shiung Wu 1912 – 1997 China, United States good fine 69 68
Xu Guangxian 1920 – 2015 China   start good 9 30

Other possible names edit

  1. Heinrich Bommer
  2. Luigi Rolla
  3. Lorenzo Fernandes
  4. B. Smith Hopkins
  5. Len Yntema or Leonard Francis Yntema
  6. James Allen Harris or James Andrew Harris?
  7. H. B. Law
  8. M. L. Pool
  9. L. L. Quill or Laurence Larkin Quill, 1901- (University of California)
  10. J. D. Kurbatov (University of California) or Joann Ivan D. Kurbatov (Ohio State University)
  11. Margaret Herrman Kurbatov (Ohio State University) Gravesite
  12. R. Harmann or R. Hermann, "ilmenium"
  13. Leo Moser (scientist), son of Ludwig Moser, see Moser (glass company), neodymium, praseodymium, etc.

Other edit

Name New article Major editing Page rating before ORES rating after Citations before Citations after
Rare-earth element   B good 117 129
Journal of Alloys and Compounds (founded as Journal of Less Common Metals)   C 13
Julie Michelle Klinger   B 19
Mary Elvira Weeks   stub B 0 14
Gas mantle unassessed start 10 10

Well-known minerals containing yttrium, and other HREE edit

  1. gadolinite
  2. xenotime, start, 5 citations
  3. samarskite
  4. euxenite
  5. fergusonite
  6. yttrotantalite
  7. yttrotungstite
  8. yttrofluorite (a variety of fluorite)
  9. thalenite
  10. yttrialite
  11. See Rare-earth elements for more suggestions

Well-known minerals containing cerium, and other LREE edit

  1. bastnäsite
  2. monazite
  3. allanite
  4. loparite
  5. ancylite
  6. parisite
  7. lanthanite
  8. chevkinite
  9. cerite
  10. stillwellite
  11. britholite
  12. fluocerite
  13. cerianite
  14. Monazite
  15. bastnäsite
  16. loparite

Determined not to be rare earths edit

  1. Niobium  
  2. Tantalum
  3. Thorium
  4. Uranium
  5. Tungsten
  6. Platinum
  7. Vanadium

ORES evaluation example edit

Europium two article versions dated 2010, 2011 401519890, 465797317 (revision ids)

find the version you want, then click permanent ID in left-hand column to get rev ID (hiding at the end of the URL)
  • Insert rev IDs into https://ores.wikimedia.org/ui/
  • click "enwiki", "article quality", then "get me results"
  • 1st version readout
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 B 0.2941779571555954
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 C 0.5938252397217002
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 FA 0.0394849652577506
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 GA 0.028902366400582958
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 Start 0.038731059486617044
    • enwiki articlequality 401519890 Stub 0.00487841197775359