BIOLOGIST

Friedrich Reinitzer

1857 - 1927

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Friedrich Richard Reinitzer (25 February 1857 in Prague – 16 February 1927 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered properties of liquid crystals (named later by Otto Lehmann). Reinitzer was born into a German Bohemian family in Prague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Reinitzer has received more than 52,212 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Friedrich Reinitzer is the 711th most popular biologist (down from 595th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 495th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 711 out of 1,097. Before him are Ignaz Schiffermüller, Richard Lewontin, Philip Barker-Webb, Curt Backeberg, Josephine Kablick, and George Newbold Lawrence. After him are François Marie Daudin, Joseph Leidy, Richard Wettstein, André Thouin, Albert Bernhard Frank, and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 111. Before him are James Edward Keeler, Henry Dudeney, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Constantin Coandă, Christian Wilhelm Allers, and Milton S. Hershey. After him are E. A. Wallis Budge, Otto Stapf, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Halil Pasha, Jules de Trooz, and Clarence Darrow. Among people deceased in 1927, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 111. Before him are Samuel Garman, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Wang Guowei, Hermann von Stein, Marianne Stokes, and Henri Hubert. After him are Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Leonard Nelson, John Henry Davies, Marie Spartali Stillman, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, and J. B. Bury.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 590 out of 1,200. Before him are Karel Kolský (1914), Svatopluk Čech (1846), Jaroslav Holík (1942), Patrik Ouředník (1957), Karel Petrů (1891), and Josephine Kablick (1787). After him are Rudolf Firkušný (1912), Petr Kellner (1964), Karel Mejta Sr (1928), John Neumann (1811), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), and Tomáš Šmíd (1956).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 12. Before him are Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), August von Pelzeln (1825), and Josephine Kablick (1787). After him are Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), Karel Domin (1882), and Edmund Reitter (1845).

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