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Felix Hoppe-Seyler

1825 - 1895

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Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (né Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. He had discovered Yeast nucleic acid which is now called RNA in his attempts to follow up and confirm Miescher's results by repeating parts of Miescher's experiments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Hoppe-Seyler has received more than 101,112 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Hoppe-Seyler is the 452nd most popular chemist (down from 385th in 2019), the 3,998th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 452 out of 602. Before him are Myrtle Bachelder, Jacques-Louis Soret, James B. Conant, Donella Meadows, Johann Schweigger, and Carl Theodore Liebermann. After him are Carl Graebe, Benjamin List, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Walther Kossel, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, and Carl Remigius Fresenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 56. Before him are Rafael Núñez, Aníbal Pinto, Mårten Eskil Winge, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, August Beer, and Karl Doppler. After him are Emil Welti, Domingo Santa María, Simeon Bavier, Princess Marie of Nassau, George Pickett, and Francesco Faà di Bruno. Among people deceased in 1895, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 61. Before him are Meijer de Haan, Viktor Rydberg, John Wesley Hardin, Daniel Kirkwood, Jorge Isaacs, and Petko Slaveykov. After him are Nikolay Girs, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Silvestro Lega, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, and Thomas Francis Wade.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 3,998 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (1480), Michael Gielen (1927), Loris Karius (1993), Otto Siffling (1912), Julius Reubke (1834), and Michael Artin (1934). After him are Eva Hesse (1936), Hannelore Elsner (1942), Emil Welti (1825), Hans Carossa (1878), Michael Stich (1968), and Wolfgang Dremmler (1954).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 77. Before him are Theodor Curtius (1857), Walter Noddack (1893), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Heinrich Rose (1795), Johann Schweigger (1779), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842). After him are Carl Graebe (1841), Benjamin List (1968), Walther Kossel (1888), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Friedrich Accum (1769), and Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834).

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