New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

CHEMIST

August Kekulé

1829 - 1896

Photo of August Kekulé

Icon of person August Kekulé

Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz ( KAY-kə-lay, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst ˈkeːkuleː fɔn ʃtʁaˈdoːnɪts]; 7 September 1829 – 13 July 1896), was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in the field of theoretical chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Kekulé has received more than 622,934 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). August Kekulé is the 30th most popular chemist (up from 35th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 352nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Chemist.

August Kekulé is most famous for his discovery of the ring-shaped structure of benzene.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of August Kekulé by language


Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, August Kekulé ranks 30 out of 509. Before him are Henri Moissan, Alfred Werner, Eduard Buchner, Otto Wallach, Justus von Liebig, and Adolf von Baeyer. After him are Valery Legasov, John Stith Pemberton, Robert Bunsen, William Ramsay, Frederick Sanger, and Jan Baptist van Helmont.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, August Kekulé ranks 4. Before him are Oscar II of Sweden, Geronimo, and Levi Strauss. After him are Anton Rubinstein, Chester A. Arthur, John Everett Millais, Asaph Hall, Auguste Beernaert, Philip Sclater, Theodor Billroth, and Alfred Brehm. Among people deceased in 1896, August Kekulé ranks 6. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Paul Verlaine, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, and Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria. After him are William Morris, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ivar Aasen, and John Everett Millais.

Others Born in 1829

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1896

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Kekulé ranks 282 out of 6,142. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Carl Zeiss (1816), Joseph Beuys (1921), Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Constanze Mozart (1762), and Michael Haneke (1942). After him are Georgius Agricola (1494), Karl May (1842), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), and Christian I of Denmark (1426).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, August Kekulé ranks 8. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Otto Hahn (1879), Emil Fischer (1852), Eduard Buchner (1860), Justus von Liebig (1803), and Adolf von Baeyer (1835). After him are Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Hans Fischer (1881), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

German born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL