1877 - 1950
Emil Abderhalden (9 March 1877 – 5 August 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigor remains unclear. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Abderhalden has received more than 61,224 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Emil Abderhalden is the 262nd most popular chemist (down from 257th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 138th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Chemist.
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Among chemists, Emil Abderhalden ranks 262 out of 509. Before him are Kikunae Ikeda, Martin Karplus, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Roger D. Kornberg, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and Ignacy Łukasiewicz. After him are Alexander Butlerov, Martin Rodbell, Luis Federico Leloir, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Vladimir Markovnikov, and Hideki Shirakawa.
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 256
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 257
1858 - 1929
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 258
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 259
1799 - 1868
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 260
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 261
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 262
1828 - 1886
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 263
1925 - 1998
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 264
1906 - 1987
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 265
1797 - 1858
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 266
1838 - 1904
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 267
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 268
Among people born in 1877, Emil Abderhalden ranks 36. Before him are Gabriele Münter, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, Rudolf Hilferding, Ulrich Salchow, and Mykola Leontovych. After him are Otto Gross, Henry Norris Russell, Isabelle Eberhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Alben W. Barkley, and Endre Ady. Among people deceased in 1950, Emil Abderhalden ranks 44. Before him are Grigory Kulik, Mao Anying, Constantin Carathéodory, Francesco Cilea, Melitta Bentz, and Liane de Pougy. After him are Eliel Saarinen, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Salvatore Giuliano, Alfred Korzybski, Ryuzo Shimizu, and Charles Koechlin.
1877 - 1962
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 30
1877 - 1959
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 31
1877 - 1959
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 32
1877 - 1941
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 33
1877 - 1949
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 34
1877 - 1921
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 35
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 36
1877 - 1920
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 37
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 38
1877 - 1904
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 39
1877 - 1947
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 40
1877 - 1956
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 41
1877 - 1919
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 42
1890 - 1950
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 38
1922 - 1950
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 39
1873 - 1950
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 40
1866 - 1950
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 41
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 42
1869 - 1950
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 43
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 44
1873 - 1950
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 45
1883 - 1950
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 46
1922 - 1950
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 47
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 48
1902 - 1950
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 49
1867 - 1950
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 50
Among people born in Switzerland, Emil Abderhalden ranks 139 out of 876. Before him are Louis Agassiz (1807), Margareta of Romania (1949), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Max Bill (1908), Alfonsina Storni (1892), and Rodolphe Töpffer (1799). After him are Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Ernest Ansermet (1883).
1807 - 1873
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 133
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 134
1870 - 1931
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 135
1908 - 1994
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 136
1892 - 1938
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 137
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 138
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 139
1938 - 2015
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 140
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 141
1877 - 1904
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 142
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 143
1889 - 1943
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 144
1883 - 1969
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 145
Among chemists born in Switzerland, Emil Abderhalden ranks 7. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Germain Henri Hess (1802), and Jacques Dubochet (1942). After him are Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 1
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 2
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 3
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 4
1802 - 1850
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 6
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 7
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 8
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 9
1767 - 1845
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 10
1827 - 1890
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 11
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 12