CHEMIST

Ernst Otto Fischer

1918 - 2007

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Ernst Otto Fischer (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁnst ˌɔto ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Otto Fischer has received more than 104,893 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ernst Otto Fischer is the 119th most popular chemist (up from 131st in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from Germany (up from 764th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Chemist.

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel Prize winner. He is most famous for the discovery of the Fischer-Tropsch process, which is a chemical process that converts coal into liquid fuel.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 119 out of 602. Before him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Harold Urey, Archer Martin, Vincent du Vigneaud, and Gerhard Ertl. After him are Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, Avram Hershko, Johan Gadolin, and Clara Immerwahr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 27. Before him are William Holden, Martin Ryle, Jørn Utzon, Kai Siegbahn, Billy Graham, and Muriel Spark. After him are Jens Christian Skou, Rosalia Lombardo, Franco Modigliani, Frederick Reines, Yigal Allon, and Ahmed Deedat. Among people deceased in 2007, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 23. Before him are Benazir Bhutto, Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Sri Chinmoy. After him are Albert Ellis, Nils Liedholm, Abdul Rahman Arif, Richard Rorty, Jane Wyman, and Arthur Kornberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 660 out of 7,253. Before him are Andreas Baader (1943), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), and Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797). After him are George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Werner Sombart (1863), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Karl Carstens (1914), Werner von Haeften (1908), and Otto Grotewohl (1894).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 28. Before him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Karl Ziegler (1898), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Fritz Strassmann (1902), and Gerhard Ertl (1936). After him are Manfred Eigen (1927), Georg Wittig (1897), Joachim Frank (1940), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), and Robert Huber (1937).

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