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 146,691 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Alfred Werner is the 49th most popular chemist (down from 44th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from France (down from 472nd in 2019) and the 9th 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 49 out of 510. Before him are Joseph Black, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul Sabatier, Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, and Francis William Aston. After him are Richard Willstätter, Paul Karrer, Claude Louis Berthollet, Hermann Staudinger, Gertrude B. Elion, and Adolf Butenandt.
1728 - 1799
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 43
1580 - 1644
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 44
1854 - 1941
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 45
1871 - 1935
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 46
1865 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 47
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 48
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 49
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 50
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 51
1748 - 1822
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 52
1881 - 1965
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 53
1918 - 1999
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 54
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1866, Alfred Werner ranks 10. Before him are Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Beatrix Potter, and Benedetto Croce. After him are Hans von Seeckt, Aby Warburg, Giovanni Agnelli, Ferruccio Busoni, Anne Sullivan, and Aleksandr Ulyanov. Among people deceased in 1919, Alfred Werner ranks 16. Before him are Ruggero Leoncavallo, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Gojong of Korea, William Crookes, Carl Larsson, and Madam C. J. Walker. After him are Yakov Sverdlov, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, L. Frank Baum, Ismail Qemali, and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia.
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 4
1866 - 1946
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 5
1866 - 1949
HPI: 79.34
Rank: 6
1866 - 1945
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 7
1866 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 8
1866 - 1952
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 9
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 10
1866 - 1936
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 11
1866 - 1929
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 12
1866 - 1945
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 13
1866 - 1924
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 14
1866 - 1936
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 15
1866 - 1887
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 16
1857 - 1919
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 11
1852 - 1919
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 12
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 13
1853 - 1919
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 14
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 15
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 16
1885 - 1919
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 17
1860 - 1919
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 18
1842 - 1919
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 19
1856 - 1919
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 20
1844 - 1919
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 21
1860 - 1919
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 22
Among people born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 594 out of 5,234. Before him are Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Pope Nicholas II (990), Albert Lebrun (1871), Guy Debord (1931), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), and Élisabeth of France (1764). After him are Louis Blériot (1872), René Guénon (1886), Mireille Darc (1938), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Louis de Montfort (1673), and Peter IV of Aragon (1319).
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.20
Rank: 588
990 - 1061
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 589
1871 - 1950
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 590
1931 - 1994
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 591
1394 - 1465
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 592
1764 - 1794
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 593
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 594
1872 - 1936
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 595
1886 - 1951
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 596
1938 - 2017
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 597
1769 - 1851
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 598
1673 - 1716
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 599
1319 - 1387
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 600
Among chemists born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 9. Before him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), and Victor Grignard (1871). After him are Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Jacques Monod (1910), Joseph Proust (1754), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850).
1897 - 1956
HPI: 79.05
Rank: 3
1778 - 1850
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 4
1852 - 1907
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 5
1728 - 1799
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 6
1854 - 1941
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 7
1871 - 1935
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 8
1866 - 1919
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 9
1748 - 1822
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 10
1786 - 1889
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 11
1910 - 1976
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 12
1754 - 1826
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 13
1827 - 1907
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 14
1850 - 1936
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 15