CHEMIST

Adolf von Baeyer

1835 - 1917

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: [ˈaːdɔlf fɔn ˈbaɪɐ] ; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf von Baeyer has received more than 378,734 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Adolf von Baeyer is the 42nd most popular chemist (down from 29th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Germany (down from 258th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Chemist.

Adolf von Baeyer is most famous for his discovery of phenol, which is used in the production of synthetic dyes and plastics.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 42 out of 602. Before him are John Stith Pemberton, Gertrude B. Elion, Carl Bosch, Henri Moissan, August Kekulé, and Valery Legasov. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Gerty Cori, Kurt Alder, Alfred Werner, Paul Sabatier, and Friedrich Bergius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 7. Before him are Mark Twain, Leopold II of Belgium, Empress Dowager Cixi, Pope Pius X, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Cesare Lombroso. After him are Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Henryk Wieniawski, and Giosuè Carducci. Among people deceased in 1917, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 10. Before him are Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Mata Hari, Eduard Buchner, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and Emil von Behring. After him are Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil Theodor Kocher, Buffalo Bill, John William Waterhouse, Dragutin Dimitrijević, and Franz Brentano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 334 out of 7,253. Before him are August Kekulé (1829), Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744), Einhard (770), Karl Haushofer (1869), Fritz Sauckel (1894), and Albrecht Altdorfer (1480). After him are Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Emil Nolde (1867), and Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 10. Before him are Emil Fischer (1852), Eduard Buchner (1860), Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), and August Kekulé (1829). After him are Adolf Butenandt (1903), Adolf Windaus (1876), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), and Hans Fischer (1881).

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