1844 - 1895
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 398,562 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Friedrich Miescher is the 89th most popular physician (up from 98th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 71st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physician.
Friedrich Miescher is most famous for his discovery of nucleic acids in 1869.
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Among physicians, Friedrich Miescher ranks 89 out of 502. Before him are François Duvalier, Johannes Fibiger, Jonas Salk, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Werner Forssmann, and Cornelius Jansen. After him are Róbert Bárány, Walter Rudolf Hess, Jang-geum, Corneille Heymans, Stanley Cohen, and Ctesias.
1907 - 1971
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 83
1867 - 1928
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 84
1914 - 1995
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 85
1857 - 1940
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 86
1904 - 1979
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 87
1585 - 1638
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 88
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 89
1876 - 1936
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 90
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 91
1550 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 92
1892 - 1968
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 93
1922 - 2020
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 94
440 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 95
Among people born in 1844, Friedrich Miescher ranks 22. Before him are Mary Cassatt, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Pablo de Sarasate, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Menelik II, and Muhammad Ahmad. After him are Abdur Rahman Khan, Ismail Qemali, Charles-Marie Widor, Charles-Émile Reynaud, `Abdu'l-Bahá, and Karl Lueger. Among people deceased in 1895, Friedrich Miescher ranks 12. Before him are Thomas Henry Huxley, Empress Myeongseong, Julius Lothar Meyer, Adam Opel, José Martí, and Isma'il Pasha. After him are Franz von Suppé, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Arthur Cayley, Julia, Princess of Battenberg, Frederick Douglass, and Johann Josef Loschmidt.
1844 - 1926
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 16
1844 - 1916
HPI: 69.04
Rank: 17
1844 - 1908
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 18
1844 - 1900
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 19
1844 - 1913
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 20
1844 - 1885
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 21
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 22
1844 - 1901
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 23
1844 - 1919
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 24
1844 - 1937
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 25
1844 - 1918
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 26
1844 - 1921
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 27
1844 - 1910
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 28
1825 - 1895
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 6
1851 - 1895
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 7
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 8
1837 - 1895
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 9
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 10
1830 - 1895
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 11
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 12
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 13
1817 - 1895
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 14
1821 - 1895
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 15
1825 - 1895
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 16
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 17
1821 - 1895
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 18
Among people born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 58 out of 876. Before him are Felix Bloch (1905), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Clay Regazzoni (1939), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), H. R. Giger (1940), and Gabriel Cramer (1704). After him are Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Hans Küng (1928), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Emil Jannings (1884), and Alexandre Yersin (1863).
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 52
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 53
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 54
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 55
1940 - 2014
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 56
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 57
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 58
1853 - 1918
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 59
1928 - 2021
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 60
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 61
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 62
1884 - 1950
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 63
1863 - 1943
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 64
Among physicians born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 5. Before him are Paracelsus (1493), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Emil Theodor Kocher (1841). After him are Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Adolf Meyer (1866), and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777).
1493 - 1541
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 1
1926 - 2004
HPI: 68.45
Rank: 2
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 3
1841 - 1917
HPI: 66.80
Rank: 4
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 5
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 6
1863 - 1943
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 7
1708 - 1777
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 8
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 9
1867 - 1939
HPI: 51.34
Rank: 10
1866 - 1950
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 11
1777 - 1861
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 12