CHEMIST

Ernst Otto Beckmann

1853 - 1923

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Ernst Otto Beckmann (July 4, 1853 – July 12, 1923) was a German pharmacist and chemist who is remembered for his invention of the Beckmann differential thermometer and for his discovery of the Beckmann rearrangement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Otto Beckmann has received more than 30,800 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ernst Otto Beckmann is the 378th most popular chemist (up from 398th in 2019), the 2,838th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,239th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 378 out of 602. Before him are Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, Koichi Tanaka, Rashad Khalifa, and Hermann von Fehling. After him are Louis Le Chatelier, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Jacques Bergier, Friedrich Stromeyer, Tim Hunt, and Jan Czochralski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 52. Before him are Sarada Devi, Vladimir Kokovtsov, Higaonna Kanryō, Ciprian Porumbescu, Teresa Carreño, and Antonio Maura. After him are Laurits Tuxen, Gabriel Hanotaux, Frank Dicksee, Paul Julius Möbius, Isidor Kaufmann, and Adolf Furtwängler. Among people deceased in 1923, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 56. Before him are William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Damat Ferid Pasha, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Katō Tomosaburō, Sayed Darwish, and Hermes da Fonseca. After him are Alfred Edwards, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Kuroki Tamemoto, Louis Couperus, Fritz Mauthner, and Armen Garo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 2,838 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863), Aloysia Weber (1760), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Ida Straus (1849), Lina Radke (1903), and Christoph von Dohnányi (1929). After him are Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1482), Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (1673), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671), Friedrich August Stüler (1800), and Carl Hilpert (1888).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 63. Before him are Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), Otto Schott (1851), and Hermann von Fehling (1812). After him are Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hugo Schiff (1834), Ferdinand Reich (1799), Albert Niemann (1834), and Otto Ambros (1901).

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