1868 - 1946
Felix Hoffmann (21 January 1868 – 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesising diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Hoffmann has received more than 237,075 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Felix Hoffmann is the 88th most popular chemist (down from 78th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from Germany (down from 561st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Chemist.
Felix hoffmann is most famous for inventing aspirin.
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Among chemists, Felix Hoffmann ranks 88 out of 509. Before him are Karl Ziegler, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Konrad Emil Bloch, Odd Hassel, Richard Kuhn, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. After him are Ernest Solvay, Clara Immerwahr, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Harold Urey, and Paul Hermann Müller.
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 82
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 83
1912 - 2000
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 84
1897 - 1981
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 85
1900 - 1967
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 86
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 87
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 88
1838 - 1922
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 89
1870 - 1915
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 90
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 91
1893 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 92
1893 - 1981
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 93
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 94
Among people born in 1868, Felix Hoffmann ranks 25. Before him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Paul Claudel, Theodore William Richards, Dietrich Eckart, Gustav Meyrink, and Vittorio Monti. After him are Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Edmond Rostand, Scott Joplin, August Horch, Huo Yuanjia, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Among people deceased in 1946, Felix Hoffmann ranks 33. Before him are Amon Göth, Kurt Daluege, Karl Hermann Frank, Gilbert N. Lewis, Ananda Mahidol, and László Moholy-Nagy. After him are Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Helene Schjerfbeck, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Wilhelm Marx, Milan Nedić, and Ernest Thompson Seton.
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 19
1868 - 1955
HPI: 65.95
Rank: 20
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 21
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 22
1868 - 1932
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 23
1868 - 1922
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 24
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 25
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 26
1868 - 1918
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 27
1868 - 1917
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 28
1868 - 1951
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 29
1868 - 1910
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 30
1868 - 1928
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 31
1908 - 1946
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 27
1897 - 1946
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 28
1898 - 1946
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 29
1875 - 1946
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 30
1925 - 1946
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 31
1895 - 1946
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 32
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 33
1883 - 1946
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 34
1862 - 1946
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 35
1885 - 1946
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 36
1863 - 1946
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 37
1878 - 1946
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 38
1860 - 1946
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 39
Among people born in Germany, Felix Hoffmann ranks 594 out of 6,142. Before him are Nina Hagen (1955), Albert, King of Sweden (1340), Georg Jellinek (1851), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817), and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804). After him are Oliver Kahn (1969), Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (1801), Werner Sombart (1863), Edith Frank (1900), Georg Büchner (1813), and Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783).
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 588
1340 - 1412
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 589
1851 - 1911
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 590
1879 - 1952
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 591
1817 - 1905
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 592
1804 - 1851
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 593
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 594
1969 - Present
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 595
1801 - 1873
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 596
1863 - 1941
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 597
1900 - 1945
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 598
1813 - 1837
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 599
1783 - 1850
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 600
Among chemists born in Germany, Felix Hoffmann ranks 23. Before him are Richard Willstätter (1872), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Karl Ziegler (1898), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604). After him are Manfred Eigen (1927), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Joachim Sauer (1949), and Ernst Chain (1906).
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 17
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 18
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 19
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 21
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 22
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 23
1927 - 2019
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 24
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 25
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 26
1659 - 1734
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 27
1949 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 28
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 29