1876 - 1959
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 68,514 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Adolf Windaus is the 64th most popular chemist (up from 72nd in 2019), the 479th most popular biography from Germany (up from 529th in 2019) and the 14th 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 64 out of 509. Before her are Melvin Calvin, Claude Louis Berthollet, Kary Mullis, Friedrich Bergius, Irving Langmuir, and Tadeusz Reichstein. After her are Arne Tiselius, Dorothy Hodgkin, John Howard Northrop, Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Diels, and Theodore William Richards.
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 58
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 59
1944 - 2019
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 60
1884 - 1949
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 61
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 62
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 63
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 64
1902 - 1971
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 65
1910 - 1994
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 66
1891 - 1987
HPI: 65.98
Rank: 67
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 68
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 69
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 70
Among people born in 1876, Adolf Windaus ranks 18. Before her are Manuel de Falla, Alexander I of Serbia, Willis Carrier, 13th Dalai Lama, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium. After her are Otto Diels, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Róbert Bárány, Elsa Einstein, Maxim Litvinov, and Kim Koo. Among people deceased in 1959, Adolf Windaus ranks 13. Before her are Billie Holiday, Owen Willans Richardson, Gérard Philipe, Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Camilo Cienfuegos. After her are Shirō Ishii, Buddy Holly, Errol Flynn, George Grosz, Mike Hawthorn, and Bohuslav Martinů.
1876 - 1946
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 12
1876 - 1903
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 13
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 14
1876 - 1933
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 15
1876 - 1958
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 16
1876 - 1965
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 17
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 18
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 19
1876 - 1938
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 20
1876 - 1936
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 21
1876 - 1936
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 22
1876 - 1951
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 23
1876 - 1949
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 24
1915 - 1959
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 7
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 8
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 9
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 10
1887 - 1959
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 11
1932 - 1959
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 12
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 13
1892 - 1959
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 14
1936 - 1959
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 15
1909 - 1959
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 16
1893 - 1959
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1929 - 1959
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 18
1890 - 1959
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 479 out of 6,142. Before her are Wassily Leontief (1906), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Adolf Galland (1912), Johann Bayer (1572), and Richard von Weizsäcker (1920). After her are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), Sophia of Nassau (1836), Adam Opel (1837), Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792), Conradin (1252), and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732).
1906 - 1999
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 473
1488 - 1523
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 474
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 475
1912 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 476
1572 - 1625
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 477
1920 - 2015
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 478
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 479
1892 - 1980
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 480
1836 - 1913
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 481
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 482
1792 - 1873
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 483
1252 - 1268
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 484
1732 - 1795
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 485
Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf Windaus ranks 14. Before her are August Kekulé (1829), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Hans Fischer (1881). After her are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), and Hermann Staudinger (1881).
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 8
1811 - 1899
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 9
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 10
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 11
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 12
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 13
1876 - 1959
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 14
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 15
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 16
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 17
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 18
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 19
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20