CHEMIST

Clemens Winkler

1838 - 1904

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Clemens Alexander Winkler (December 26, 1838 – October 8, 1904) was a German chemist who discovered the element germanium in 1886, solidifying Dmitri Mendeleev's theory of periodicity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clemens Winkler has received more than 71,589 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Clemens Winkler is the 319th most popular chemist (up from 320th in 2019), the 1,958th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,082nd in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Clemens Winkler ranks 319 out of 602. Before him are William Prout, Torbern Bergman, Frederick Abel, William E. Moerner, Edward Frankland, and M. Stanley Whittingham. After him are Louis E. Brus, Charles Friedel, Richard J. Roberts, Sendivogius, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, and Alexandre Brongniart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Clemens Winkler ranks 41. Before him are Jules Brunet, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Vatroslav Jagić, Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, and Edwin Abbott Abbott. After him are Lucien Olivier, Henry Sidgwick, Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, John Muir, and Duke Philipp of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1904, Clemens Winkler ranks 41. Before him are Antonio Labriola, Wilhelm Marr, Herbert von Bismarck, Isabelle Eberhardt, Jamsetji Tata, and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. After him are Franz von Lenbach, Eugen Schauman, Korla Awgust Kocor, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Vyacheslav von Plehve, and William Renshaw.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Clemens Winkler ranks 1,958 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), Rainer Bonhof (1952), Niko Kovač (1971), Hermann Schlegel (1804), and Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579). After him are Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1818), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Hans Hartung (1904), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828), and Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1678).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Clemens Winkler ranks 55. Before him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818). After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), and Otto Schott (1851).

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