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Ernst Chain

1906 - 1979

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Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Chain has received more than 174,448 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Ernst Chain is the 130th most popular chemist (down from 100th in 2019), the 757th most popular biography from Germany (down from 639th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Chemist.

The Ernst Chain is most famous for its role in the development of the polio vaccine. In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team of researchers isolated the virus that causes polio and developed a vaccine that would prevent the disease.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ernst Chain ranks 130 out of 509. Before him are Johan Gadolin, Glenn T. Seaborg, Joachim Sauer, Jean-Marie Lehn, Dan Shechtman, and Robert Burns Woodward. After him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Christian B. Anfinsen, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Arthur Harden, William Giauque, and Marcellin Berthelot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ernst Chain ranks 53. Before him are Marie José of Belgium, Clyde Tombaugh, Bugsy Siegel, Klaus Mann, Estée Lauder, and Marcel Carné. After him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Empress Wanrong, Albert Sabin, Max Delbrück, Ettore Majorana, and Vera Menchik. Among people deceased in 1979, Ernst Chain ranks 30. Before him are Sid Vicious, Reinhard Gehlen, Bertil Ohlin, Wilhelm Bittrich, Rachele Mussolini, and Robert Burns Woodward. After him are Agostinho Neto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Francisco Macías Nguema, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Peggy Guggenheim, and Mary Pickford.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Chain ranks 757 out of 6,142. Before him are Max Beckmann (1884), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715), Walther Wenck (1900), Paul Blobel (1894), and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735). After him are Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Paul Breitner (1951), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), and Jürgen Klinsmann (1964).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Chain ranks 29. Before him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Manfred Eigen (1927), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), and Joachim Sauer (1949). After him are Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Hennig Brand (1630), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), and Robert Huber (1937).

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