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Adolph Frank

1834 - 1916

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Adolph Frank (January 20, 1834 – May 30, 1916) was a German-Jew chemist, engineer, and businessman. He is best known for having discovered uses of potash and creating the industry. Adolph Frank was born in the town of Klötze (now in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolph Frank has received more than 20,477 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Adolph Frank is the 502nd most popular chemist (down from 408th in 2019), the 4,629th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,307th in 2019) and the 94th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolph Frank ranks 502 out of 602. Before him are Johannes Wislicenus, Edward Charles Howard, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Jacob Volhard, and Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann. After him are Ivan Horbachevsky, Julius Wilbrand, Karol Olszewski, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Gustav Rose, and Johannes Thiele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adolph Frank ranks 82. Before him are Yuriy Fedkovych, Heinrich Caro, Louis Ruchonnet, Jacob Volhard, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, and Franz Steindachner. After him are Manuel Pardo, Maurice Raynaud, Princess Marie of Baden, Rafael Zaldívar, Édouard Pailleron, and Emil Stang. Among people deceased in 1916, Adolph Frank ranks 128. Before him are Sámuel Teleki, Paul von Plehwe, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Germán Riesco, and Maksim Kovalevsky. After him are Charles Booth, Alexander Voeikov, Alfred Cogniaux, Gorch Fock, Guido Romano, and Lorenzo Latorre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 4,629 out of 7,253. Before him are Mathilde Marchesi (1821), Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Joseph von Radowitz (1797), and Heinrich Christian Boie (1744). After him are Christoph Metzelder (1980), Erich Beer (1946), Edgar Barth (1917), John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1634), Hans Reissner (1874), and Gisela Uhlen (1919).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 94. Before him are Alwin Mittasch (1869), Adolph Strecker (1822), Christian Gmelin (1792), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), and Jacob Volhard (1834). After him are Julius Wilbrand (1839), Gustav Rose (1798), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Albert Ladenburg (1842), and Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835).

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