1876 - 1959
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (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. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. He was born in Berlin, Germany on December 25, 1876 to a family who owned a drapery business. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Windaus has received more than 40,183 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Adolf Windaus is the 72nd most popular chemist (down from 64th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Germany (down from 424th in 2019) and the 19th 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, Adolf Windaus ranks 72 out of 510. Before her are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, George de Hevesy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Hans Fischer, Johann Rudolf Glauber, and Kary Mullis. After her are Harold Urey, Melvin Calvin, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Arne Tiselius, and Felix Hoffmann.
1861 - 1947
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 66
1885 - 1966
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 67
1865 - 1929
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 68
1881 - 1945
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 69
1604 - 1670
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 70
1944 - 2019
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 71
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 72
1893 - 1981
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 73
1911 - 1997
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 74
1904 - 1971
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 75
1743 - 1817
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 76
1902 - 1971
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 77
1868 - 1946
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 78
Among people born in 1876, Adolf Windaus ranks 19. Before her are 13th Dalai Lama, Willis Carrier, Maurice de Vlaminck, Manuel de Falla, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, and Róbert Bárány. After her are Hermann Müller, Maxim Litvinov, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, and Otto Diels. Among people deceased in 1959, Adolf Windaus ranks 16. Before her are Boris Vian, Camilo Cienfuegos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Billie Holiday, George Grosz, and Shirō Ishii. After her are Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Bohuslav Martinů, Alfred Schütz, Edward C. Tolman, and Arthur Cecil Pigou.
1876 - 1933
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 13
1876 - 1950
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 14
1876 - 1958
HPI: 75.15
Rank: 15
1876 - 1946
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 16
1876 - 1965
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 17
1876 - 1936
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 18
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 19
1876 - 1931
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 20
1876 - 1951
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 21
1876 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 22
1876 - 1917
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 23
1876 - 1938
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 24
1876 - 1954
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 25
1920 - 1959
HPI: 74.51
Rank: 10
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 11
1887 - 1959
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 12
1915 - 1959
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 13
1893 - 1959
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 14
1892 - 1959
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 15
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 16
1936 - 1959
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 17
1941 - 1959
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 18
1890 - 1959
HPI: 72.47
Rank: 19
1899 - 1959
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 20
1886 - 1959
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 21
1877 - 1959
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 22
Among people born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 529 out of 5,289. Before her are Victoria of Baden (1862), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), and Hans von Bülow (1830). After her are Adolf Galland (1912), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Georg Büchner (1813), Julia Drusilla (16), Otto Strasser (1897), and Hans von Seeckt (1866).
1862 - 1930
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 523
1767 - 1845
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 524
1604 - 1670
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 525
1879 - 1952
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 526
1892 - 1980
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 527
1830 - 1894
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 528
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 529
1912 - 1996
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 530
1892 - 1968
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 531
1813 - 1837
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 532
16 - 38
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 533
1897 - 1974
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 534
1866 - 1936
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 535
Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 19. Before her are Richard Willstätter (1872), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Karl Ziegler (1898), Hans Fischer (1881), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604). After her are Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Otto Diels (1876), and Ernst Chain (1906).
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 13
1881 - 1965
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 14
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 15
1898 - 1973
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16
1881 - 1945
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 17
1604 - 1670
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 18
1876 - 1959
HPI: 73.36
Rank: 19
1743 - 1817
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 20
1868 - 1946
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 21
1873 - 1964
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 22
1877 - 1957
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 23
1876 - 1954
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 24
1906 - 1979
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 25