CHEMIST

Emil Abderhalden

1877 - 1950

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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 rigour remains unclear. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Abderhalden has received more than 65,220 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Emil Abderhalden is the 258th most popular chemist (up from 262nd in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 139th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Emil Abderhalden ranks 258 out of 602. Before him are Walter Gilbert, Andreas Libavius, Michael Polanyi, Kikunae Ikeda, Arieh Warshel, and Dudley R. Herschbach. After him are Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Emil Abderhalden ranks 37. Before him are Aga Khan III, Rudolf Hilferding, Henry Norris Russell, James Jeans, Alben W. Barkley, and Princess Auguste of Bavaria. After him are Endre Ady, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ulrich Salchow, Vasil Kolarov, Otto Gross, and Sadao Araki. Among people deceased in 1950, Emil Abderhalden ranks 42. Before him are Werner Haase, Francesco Cilea, Constantin Carathéodory, Eliel Saarinen, John Rabe, and Henry L. Stimson. After him are Melitta Bentz, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Fevzi Çakmak, Vasil Kolarov, and Jan Smuts.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Emil Abderhalden ranks 133 out of 1,015. Before him are Judith of Habsburg (1271), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Heinrich Bullinger (1504), and Mario Adorf (1930). After him are Frank Martin (1890), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Marthe Keller (1945), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Jost Amman (1539), and Marina Doria (1935).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

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), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Albert Eschenmoser (1925), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).

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