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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 28,669 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ernst Otto Beckmann is the 398th most popular chemist (down from 382nd in 2019), the 3,242nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,907th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 398 out of 509Before him are Luke Howard, Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, Edward Calvin Kendall, Otto Ambros, and Nikolay Beketov. After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, William Nicholson, Georges Urbain, James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 58Before him are Elihu Thomson, Teresa Carreño, John Wesley Hardin, Hans von Koessler, Howard Pyle, and Laurits Tuxen. After him are Lillie Langtry, Gabriel Hanotaux, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Karl von Einem, Jaroslav Vrchlický, and Heinrich Lammasch. Among people deceased in 1923, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 70Before him are Kadambini Ganguly, Krišjānis Barons, Walther Kadow, Gunnar Nordström, Kuroki Tamemoto, and Itō Noe. After him are Charles Proteus Steinmetz, George Hendrik Breitner, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Ernst Ziller, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, and Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 3,242 out of 6,142Before him are Gabriel Biel (1418), Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854), Felix Draeseke (1835), and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731). After him are Rudolf Wolters (1903), Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal (1907), Rebecca Horn (1944), Conrad Böcker (1870), Carl Diem (1882), and Adolf Busch (1891).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Otto Beckmann ranks 69Before him are Hermann von Fehling (1812), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Benjamin List (1968), Leonor Michaelis (1875), and Otto Ambros (1901). After him are Adolph Frank (1834), Albert Niemann (1834), Johann Schweigger (1779), Walter Noddack (1893), Michael Grätzel (1944), and Ferdinand Reich (1799).