CHEMIST

Eduard Buchner

1860 - 1917

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Eduard Buchner (German: [ˈeːduaʁt ˈbuːxnɐ] ; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduard Buchner has received more than 208,181 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Eduard Buchner is the 24th most popular chemist (up from 26th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Germany (up from 240th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Chemist.

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist who is most famous for his discovery of lactic acid fermentation.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Eduard Buchner ranks 24 out of 602. Before him are Linus Pauling, Edwin McMillan, Friedrich Wöhler, Paul Karrer, William Ramsay, and Emil Fischer. After him are Albert Hofmann, Otto Wallach, Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, Casimir Funk, and John Howard Northrop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Eduard Buchner ranks 7. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Klara Hitler, Jane Addams, and Alphonse Mucha. After him are Kanō Jigorō, Raymond Poincaré, Anders Zorn, Willem Einthoven, William Jennings Bryan, and Isaac Albéniz. Among people deceased in 1917, Eduard Buchner ranks 7. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, and Mata Hari. After him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil Theodor Kocher, and Buffalo Bill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Buchner ranks 195 out of 7,253. Before him are Anne of Cleves (1515), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), Emil Fischer (1852), Oswald Spengler (1880), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), and Jacob Grimm (1785). After him are Gottlob Frege (1848), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Max Ernst (1891), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (1882), and Nico (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Eduard Buchner ranks 5. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Otto Hahn (1879), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), and Emil Fischer (1852). After him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

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