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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 49,557 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Reinitzer is the 596th most popular biologist, the 495th most popular biography from Czechia and the 10th most popular Czech Biologist.

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  • 15

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 596 out of 841. Before him are Robert Swinhoe, Volcher Coiter, Shi Zhengli, Roberto de Visiani, John Isaac Briquet, and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold. After him are Alfred Cogniaux, Thomas Say, Edward Turner Bennett, Heinrich Boie, David Suzuki, and Pier Andrea Saccardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 102. Before him are Helena Westermarck, Anita Augspurg, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Aleksei Evert, and Gustave Lanson. After him are Clarence Darrow, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Constantin Coandă, Milton S. Hershey, Theodor Curtius, and Ernst Trygger. Among people deceased in 1927, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 96. Before him are Sascha Schneider, Matilde Serao, David Arellano, Constance Markievicz, Marie Spartali Stillman, and Maximilian Harden. After him are Ernest Starling, Hermann von Stein, Georges Eekhoud, Wang Guowei, Émile Coste, and Kenjirō Tokutomi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 495 out of 973. Before him are David Černý (1967), Jan Blahoslav (1523), Olga Taussky-Todd (1906), Vladimir Kulich (1956), Tomáš Ujfaluši (1978), and Ludvík Vaculík (1926). After him are Eduard Čech (1893), Jiří Holík (1944), Vlastimil Bubník (1931), Jan Šrámek (1870), Zecharias Frankel (1801), and Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (1873).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 10. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), and Josephine Kablick (1787). After him are Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858) and Karel Domin (1882).

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