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Feodor Lynen

1911 - 1979

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Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːodoːɐ̯ ˈlyːnən] ; 6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Feodor Lynen has received more than 57,907 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Feodor Lynen is the 260th most popular chemist (down from 210th in 2019), the 1,364th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,142nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Chemist.

Feodor Lynen was a German-born biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1955 for his work on the regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Feodor Lynen ranks 260 out of 602. Before him are Michael Polanyi, Kikunae Ikeda, Arieh Warshel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Emil Abderhalden, and Michael Smith. After him are Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Martin Karplus, and Locusta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Feodor Lynen ranks 69. Before him are Nicholas Ray, Dieter Wisliceny, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Lina Heydrich, Karl Silberbauer, and Alfonso García Robles. After him are Lee J. Cobb, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Luis Walter Alvarez, Jussi Björling, William Stuart-Houston, and George Stigler. Among people deceased in 1979, Feodor Lynen ranks 50. Before him are Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Ali Hassan Salameh, Rudi Dutschke, Charles Mingus, Nicholas Ray, and Conrad Hilton. After him are Louis Chiron, Heinz Reinefarth, Alfredo Ottaviani, Nicos Poulantzas, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Charles W. Morris.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Feodor Lynen ranks 1,364 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Bernhard Rust (1883), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), and Adolf Heusinger (1897). After him are Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Johann Schein (1586), Heidi Klum (1973), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Bernhardus Varenius (1622), and Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (1447).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Feodor Lynen ranks 47. Before him are Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), and Andreas Libavius (1555). After him are Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), and Leopold Gmelin (1788).

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