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Friedrich Miescher

1844 - 1895

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Johannes Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844 – 26 August 1895) was a Swiss physician and biologist. He was the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid in 1869. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Miescher has received more than 434,443 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Friedrich Miescher is the 114th most popular physician (down from 90th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 58th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Physician.

Friedrich Miescher is most famous for his discovery of nucleic acids in 1869.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Friedrich Miescher ranks 114 out of 726. Before him are Ronald Ross, Eric Kandel, Ulf von Euler, Jonas Salk, Andrew Schally, and Arvid Carlsson. After him are Niels Kaj Jerne, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Santorio Santorio, Erasistratus, Francis Peyton Rous, and Franz Joseph Gall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Friedrich Miescher ranks 22. Before him are Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Friedrich Ratzel, Pablo de Sarasate, Menelik II, Muhammad Ahmad, and Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Ismail Qemali, Charles-Marie Widor, Karl Lueger, `Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Julius Wellhausen. Among people deceased in 1895, Friedrich Miescher ranks 12. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, José Martí, and Adam Opel. After him are Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Arthur Cayley, Carl Ludwig, and Nikolai Leskov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 78 out of 1,015. Before him are Domenico Fontana (1543), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), and Werner Arber (1929). After him are Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Félix Vallotton (1865), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Max Frisch (1911), Heinrich Wölfflin (1864), and Alfred Cortot (1877).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 8. Before him are Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), and Alexandre Yersin (1863). After him are Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), and Adolf Meyer (1866).

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