1874 - 1940
Carl Bosch (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈbɔʃ] (listen); 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Bosch has received more than 315,112 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Carl Bosch is the 38th most popular chemist (down from 36th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Germany (down from 312th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Chemist.
Carl Bosch is most famous for inventing the process of high-pressure chemical synthesis of ammonia.
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Among chemists, Carl Bosch ranks 38 out of 510. Before him are Otto Wallach, Tu Youyou, Ilya Prigogine, August Kekulé, Frederick Soddy, and Henrik Dam. After him are Frederick Sanger, Hans Adolf Krebs, William Crookes, Robert Bunsen, Joseph Black, and Jan Baptist van Helmont.
1847 - 1931
HPI: 75.81
Rank: 32
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 33
1917 - 2003
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 34
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 35
1877 - 1956
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 36
1895 - 1976
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 37
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 38
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 39
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 40
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 41
1811 - 1899
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 42
1728 - 1799
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 43
1580 - 1644
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 44
Among people born in 1874, Carl Bosch ranks 19. Before him are Max Scheler, Johannes Stark, Alexander Kolchak, Talaat Pasha, Gertrude Stein, and G. K. Chesterton. After him are António Egas Moniz, Sunjong of Korea, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Nikolai Berdyaev, Nicholas Roerich, and Ernest Shackleton. Among people deceased in 1940, Carl Bosch ranks 13. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov, Neville Chamberlain, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Emma Goldman, and Peter Behrens. After him are Gerda Wegener, Manuel Azaña, Arthur Harden, Spyridon Louis, Isaac Babel, and Wladimir Köppen.
1874 - 1928
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 13
1874 - 1957
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 14
1874 - 1920
HPI: 76.18
Rank: 15
1874 - 1921
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 16
1874 - 1946
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 17
1874 - 1936
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 18
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 19
1874 - 1955
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 20
1874 - 1926
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 21
1874 - 1929
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 22
1874 - 1948
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 23
1874 - 1947
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 24
1874 - 1922
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 25
1891 - 1940
HPI: 80.45
Rank: 7
1869 - 1940
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 8
1918 - 1940
HPI: 78.88
Rank: 9
1895 - 1940
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 10
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 11
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 12
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 13
1886 - 1940
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 14
1880 - 1940
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 15
1865 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 16
1873 - 1940
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 17
1894 - 1940
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 18
1846 - 1940
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Carl Bosch ranks 364 out of 5,289. Before him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Ernst Abbe (1840), Werner Herzog (1942), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Franz Halder (1884), and Ernst Ruska (1906). After him are Georg von Küchler (1881), Martin Behaim (1459), Louis the Child (893), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Regiomontanus (1436), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777).
1891 - 1955
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 358
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 359
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 360
1811 - 1864
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 361
1884 - 1972
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 362
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 363
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 364
1881 - 1968
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 365
1459 - 1507
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 366
893 - 911
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 367
1884 - 1942
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 368
1436 - 1476
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 369
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 370
Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Bosch ranks 10. Before him are Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Emil Fischer (1852), Justus von Liebig (1803), Eduard Buchner (1860), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), and August Kekulé (1829). After him are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Robert Bunsen (1811), Richard Willstätter (1872), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Karl Ziegler (1898).
1830 - 1895
HPI: 78.61
Rank: 4
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 5
1803 - 1873
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 6
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 7
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 8
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 10
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 11
1811 - 1899
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 12
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 13
1881 - 1965
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 14
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 15
1898 - 1973
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 16