CHEMIST

Friedrich Bergius

1884 - 1949

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Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁɡi̯ʊs] , 11 October 1884 – 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Bergius has received more than 106,576 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Friedrich Bergius is the 48th most popular chemist (up from 61st in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Poland (up from 92nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Chemist.

Friedrich Bergius is most famous for his work in the field of organic chemistry. He was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1931. His work focused on the chemical reactions of hydrogen and carbon.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Friedrich Bergius ranks 48 out of 602. Before him are Adolf von Baeyer, Adolf Butenandt, Gerty Cori, Kurt Alder, Alfred Werner, and Paul Sabatier. After him are Frederick Sanger, Arthur Harden, Fritz Pregl, Melvin Calvin, Frederick Soddy, and Adolf Windaus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Friedrich Bergius ranks 17. Before him are Anton Drexler, Max Brod, Theodor Heuss, Franz Halder, Peter Debye, and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Gaston Bachelard, Hermann Rorschach, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Theodor Svedberg. Among people deceased in 1949, Friedrich Bergius ranks 9. Before him are George Gurdjieff, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Hassan al-Banna, Edward Thorndike, and Margaret Mitchell. After him are James Ensor, Charles Ponzi, Klaus Mann, Kim Jong-suk, August Krogh, and Louis II, Prince of Monaco.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Friedrich Bergius ranks 86 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Alder (1902), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Carl Menger (1840), and Robert Luther (1822). After him are Norbert Elias (1897), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Anton Denikin (1872), and Johannes Hevelius (1611).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Friedrich Bergius ranks 5. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Casimir Funk (1884), Walther Nernst (1864), and Kurt Alder (1902). After him are Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Antoni Grabowski (1857).

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