1866 - 1919
Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 – 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Werner has received more than 214,171 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Werner is the 25th most popular chemist (up from 49th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from France (up from 593rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Chemist.
Alfred Werner is most famous for his discovery of the chemical composition of chlorophyll.
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Among chemists, Alfred Werner ranks 25 out of 509. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Humphry Davy, Emil Fischer, Albert Hofmann, Edwin McMillan, and Henri Moissan. After him are Eduard Buchner, Otto Wallach, Justus von Liebig, Adolf von Baeyer, August Kekulé, and Valery Legasov.
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 19
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 20
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 21
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 22
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 23
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 25
1860 - 1917
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 26
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 27
1803 - 1873
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 28
1835 - 1917
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 29
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 30
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 31
Among people born in 1866, Alfred Werner ranks 8. Before him are Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and George Gurdjieff. After him are Benedetto Croce, Beatrix Potter, Aby Warburg, Giovanni Agnelli, Hans von Seeckt, and Ferruccio Busoni. Among people deceased in 1919, Alfred Werner ranks 8. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Emil Fischer, and Karl Liebknecht. After him are Emiliano Zapata, Gojong of Korea, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and William Crookes.
1866 - 1925
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 2
1866 - 1944
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 3
1866 - 1925
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 5
1866 - 1945
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 6
1866 - 1949
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 9
1866 - 1943
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 10
1866 - 1929
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 11
1866 - 1945
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 12
1866 - 1936
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 13
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 14
1841 - 1919
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 2
1858 - 1919
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 4
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 5
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1871 - 1919
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 7
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 8
1879 - 1919
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1852 - 1919
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 11
1835 - 1919
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 12
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 13
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 305 out of 6,011. Before him are Chlothar I (498), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738). After him are Bernard Arnault (1949), Georges de La Tour (1593), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Édouard Daladier (1884), Frédéric Passy (1822), and Isabella of France (1295).
498 - 561
HPI: 70.81
Rank: 299
1830 - 1914
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 300
1273 - 1305
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 301
1010 - 1035
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 302
1682 - 1712
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 303
1738 - 1814
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 304
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 305
1949 - Present
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 306
1593 - 1652
HPI: 70.62
Rank: 307
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 308
1884 - 1970
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 309
1822 - 1912
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 310
1295 - 1358
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 311
Among chemists born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 6. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), and Henri Moissan (1852). After him are Victor Grignard (1871), Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), and Joseph Proust (1754).
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 1
1743 - 1794
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 2
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 3
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 4
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 6
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 7
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 8
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 10
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 11
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 12