The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Ukraine
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ukrainian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Ukrainian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Roald Hoffmann (1937 - )
With an HPI of 61.15, Roald Hoffmann is the most famous Ukrainian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 49 different languages on wikipedia.
Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University.
2. Erwin Chargaff (1905 - 2002)
With an HPI of 60.43, Erwin Chargaff is the 2nd most famous Ukrainian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.
Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. He wrote a well-reviewed autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature.
3. Jacques Bergier (1912 - 1978)
With an HPI of 53.77, Jacques Bergier is the 3rd most famous Ukrainian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Jacques Bergier (French: [bɛʁʒje]; maybe born Yakov Mikhailovich Berger (Russian: Я́ков Миха́йлович Бéргер); Odessa, 21 August [O.S. 8 August] 1912 – Paris, 23 November 1978) was a chemical engineer, member of the French-resistance, spy, journalist and writer. He co-wrote the best-seller The Morning of the Magicians with Louis Pauwels as a work of "fantastic realism" (a term coined by the authors).
4. Jan Szczepanik (1872 - 1926)
With an HPI of 47.07, Jan Szczepanik is the 4th most famous Ukrainian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Jan Szczepanik (June 13, 1872 – April 18, 1926) was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography and television. Some of his concepts helped the future evolution of TV broadcasting, such as the telectroscope (an apparatus for distant reproduction of images and sound using electricity) or the wireless telegraph, which greatly affected the development of telecommunications. He died in Tarnów in the Second Polish Republic.
Pantheon has 4 people classified as chemists born between 1872 and 1937. Of these 4, 1 (25.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chemists include Roald Hoffmann. The most famous deceased chemists include Erwin Chargaff, Jacques Bergier, and Jan Szczepanik.
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Erwin Chargaff
1905 - 2002
HPI: 60.43
Jacques Bergier
1912 - 1978
HPI: 53.77
Jan Szczepanik
1872 - 1926
HPI: 47.07
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