CHEMIST

Adolf Windaus

1876 - 1959

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Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvɪndaʊs] ; 25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Windaus has received more than 73,924 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Adolf Windaus is the 54th most popular chemist (up from 64th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Germany (up from 479th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Chemist.

Adolf Windaus was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on the structure of chlorophyll.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolf Windaus ranks 54 out of 602. Before her are Friedrich Bergius, Frederick Sanger, Arthur Harden, Fritz Pregl, Melvin Calvin, and Frederick Soddy. After her are Victor Grignard, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Arne Tiselius, Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, and Theodor Svedberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Adolf Windaus ranks 15. Before her are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Casals, Alexander I of Serbia, Manuel de Falla, and Willis Carrier. After her are 13th Dalai Lama, Otto Diels, Elsa Einstein, Maurice de Vlaminck, Dragutin Dimitrijević, and Hermann Müller. Among people deceased in 1959, Adolf Windaus ranks 10. Before her are Gérard Philipe, George Marshall, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Raymond Chandler, and Billie Holiday. After her are Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Shirō Ishii, Camilo Cienfuegos, Bohuslav Martinů, and George Grosz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 387 out of 7,253. Before her are Albrecht Kossel (1853), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Pina Bausch (1940), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), and Hermann Fegelein (1906). After her are James Franck (1882), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Leo von Caprivi (1831), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), and Frederica of Hanover (1917).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 12. Before her are Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), and Adolf Butenandt (1903). After her are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), and Hermann Staudinger (1881).

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