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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 19,205 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Frank is the 408th most popular chemist (down from 392nd in 2019), the 3,310th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,070th in 2019) and the 70th most popular German Chemist.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolph Frank ranks 408 out of 509. Before him are James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Achille Le Bel, John Walker, and Phoebus Levene. After him are Gaston Tissandier, Asima Chatterjee, Morris Travers, Albert Niemann, Roderick MacKinnon, and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adolph Frank ranks 51. Before him are Étienne Laspeyres, Serafino Vannutelli, Adolf Lüderitz, Piet Joubert, Miguel Grau Seminario, and Paul Kummer. After him are Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Albert Niemann, Petter Adolf Karsten, Georg Hermann Quincke, Peter Benoit, and Grigoriy Myasoyedov. Among people deceased in 1916, Adolph Frank ranks 91. Before him are William Stanley Jr., Mário de Sá-Carneiro, James Guillaume, Janis Rozentāls, Jane Dieulafoy, and Eduard Nápravník. After him are Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Émile Faguet, Ishi, William Foulke, Chen Qimei, and Tina Blau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 3,310 out of 6,142. Before him are Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), Martin Ohm (1792), Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772), Kurt Blome (1894), Christian Schmidt (1957), and Franz Tunder (1614). After him are Anna of Hesse (1529), Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1943), John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721), Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1581), and Nick Heidfeld (1977).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 70. Before him are Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Benjamin List (1968), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Otto Ambros (1901), and Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853). After him are Albert Niemann (1834), Johann Schweigger (1779), Walter Noddack (1893), Michael Grätzel (1944), Ferdinand Reich (1799), and Hugo Schiff (1834).

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