The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 41st most number of Chemists behind Taiwan and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Estonian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Karl Ernst Claus (1796 - 1864)
With an HPI of 53.97, Karl Ernst Claus is the most famous Estonian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Karl Ernst Claus, also known as Karl Klaus or Carl Claus (Russian: Карл Ка́рлович Кла́ус, romanized: Karl Karlovich Klaus; 22 January 1796 – 24 March 1864), was a Russian chemist and naturalist of Baltic German origin. Claus was a professor at Kazan State University and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was primarily known as a chemist and discoverer of the chemical element ruthenium, which he named after his homeland of Russia, but also as one of the first scientists who applied quantitative methods in botany.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1796 and 1796. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chemists include Karl Ernst Claus.
