Chemists & Biochemists Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 5 entries checked · 5 flagged · 7 issues confirmed · 5 corrected · 2 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Luis Federico Leloir — Leloir left for the United States in 1944, not 1943, after Houssay was dismissed for signing an anti-Axis declaration.

Luis Federico Leloir — Leloir's ashes are interred at Cementerio de la Recoleta, not Cementerio de la Chacarita.

M. Stanley Whittingham — Whittingham and his boss, Fred Gamble, conceived the intercalation electrode — this is incorrect; Whittingham alone is credited with the discovery of intercalation electrodes for battery use.

Marguerite Perey — Francium is the second rarest element after astatine, with only about 550g existing in Earth's crust at any given time — this is incorrect; francium is typically considered the rarest naturally occurring element, with estimates of about 20-30 grams in the crus

Martin Heinrich Klaproth — The claim that his shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin is not a widely established fact in standard biographies and may be invented or unverifiable.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth — The claim that he was an independent inventor of gravimetric analysis is an overstatement not supported by standard historical consensus; the invention is generally attributed to earlier chemists like Joseph Black or Antoine Lavoisier.

Melvin Calvin — The entry states Calvin 'chaired the Committee on Science and Public Policy' without specifying the organization (National Academy of Sciences), which is misleading.

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