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Benjamin List

1968 - Today

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Benjamin List (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛnjamiːn ˈlɪst] ; born 11 January 1968) is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin List has received more than 216,694 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Benjamin List is the 454th most popular chemist (down from 387th in 2019), the 4,063rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,059th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Chemist.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Benjamin List ranks 454 out of 602. Before him are James B. Conant, Donella Meadows, Johann Schweigger, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, and Carl Graebe. After him are Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Walther Kossel, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Carl Remigius Fresenius, James Crafts, and Maclyn McCarty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Benjamin List ranks 141. Before him are Sofie Gråbøl, Michael Stich, Carlos Marín, Hakan Fidan, Billy Crudup, and Stephanie Seymour. After him are Cristian Mungiu, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Julia Boutros, Aleksandr Mostovoi, Shaggy, and Frédéric Vasseur.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Benjamin List ranks 4,063 out of 7,253. Before him are Joachim Camerarius (1500), Bill Kaulitz (1989), Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1712), Alfred Bickel (1918), Herbert Wehner (1906), and Thomas Schaaf (1961). After him are Max Dessoir (1867), James Krüss (1926), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), Carl Chun (1852), and Joachim Hansen (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Benjamin List ranks 79. Before him are Leonor Michaelis (1875), Heinrich Rose (1795), Johann Schweigger (1779), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), and Carl Graebe (1841). After him are Walther Kossel (1888), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Friedrich Accum (1769), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Robert Havemann (1910), and Ludwig Knorr (1859).

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