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Alwin Mittasch

1869 - 1953

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Paul Alwin Mittasch (sorbian: Pawoł Alwin Mitaš) (born 27 December 1869 in Großdehsa/Dažin, today to Löbau, Germany; died 4 June 1953 in Heidelberg, West Germany) was a German chemist and scientific historian of Sorbian descent. He is well known by his pioneering and systematic research in the development of catalysts for the industrial ammonia synthesis using the Haber–Bosch process. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alwin Mittasch is the 489th most popular chemist, the 4,534th most popular biography from Germany and the 88th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alwin Mittasch ranks 489 out of 602Before him are Alfred Stock, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Albert Eschenmoser, Ludwig Mond, Edmond Frémy, and Masatoshi Shima. After him are Adolph Strecker, Heinrich Caro, C. N. R. Rao, Christian Gmelin, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, and Hans Goldschmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Alwin Mittasch ranks 129Before him are Carlo Airoldi, Levon Shant, Kálmán Kandó, Robert W. Paul, Oton Iveković, and Juan Bautista Pérez. After him are Myriam Harry, Bainbridge Colby, Constantin Angelescu, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, August Blom, and Helene Stöcker. Among people deceased in 1953, Alwin Mittasch ranks 134Before him are Delfo Bellini, Carl Scarborough, James J. Jeffries, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Maria Andreyeva, and Graciliano Ramos. After him are Florence R. Sabin, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Francis Ford, Emil Filla, Leslie Graham, and John Christie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alwin Mittasch ranks 4,534 out of 7,253Before him are Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Josef Bradl (1918), Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), Wolfgang Koeppen (1906), and Erik Spiekermann (1947). After him are Sheryl Lee (1967), Andreas Krieger (1965), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), Leonard Nelson (1882), and Natja Brunckhorst (1966).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Alwin Mittasch ranks 88Before him are Friedrich Accum (1769), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Robert Havemann (1910), Ludwig Knorr (1859), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), and Ludwig Mond (1839). After him are Adolph Strecker (1822), Christian Gmelin (1792), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Jacob Volhard (1834), and Adolph Frank (1834).