CHEMIST

Friedrich Sertürner

1783 - 1841

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Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner (19 June 1783 – 20 February 1841) was a German pharmacist and a pioneer of alkaloid chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Sertürner has received more than 207,770 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Friedrich Sertürner is the 211th most popular chemist (up from 228th in 2019), the 1,120th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,250th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 211 out of 602. Before him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Kenichi Fukui, John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Gerhard Herzberg, and Wallace Carothers. After him are Satoshi Ōmura, Aziz Sancar, Antoni Grabowski, Alan J. Heeger, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, and Donald J. Cram.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 10. Before him are Agustín de Iturbide, Washington Irving, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Hugh Glass, and Vasily Zhukovsky. After him are Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Roustam Raza, and Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Among people deceased in 1841, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 9. Before him are William Henry Harrison, Mikhail Lermontov, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno. After him are Johan August Arfwedson, Minh Mạng, Ferdinando Carulli, Félix Savart, Tokugawa Ienari, and Friedrich Parrot.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 1,120 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Walther Flemming (1843), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), and Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594). After him are Gustav Noske (1868), Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), Hans Aumeier (1906), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641), and Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 42. Before him are August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Hennig Brand (1630), Hermann Kolbe (1818), and Gerhard Herzberg (1904). After him are Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Joachim Sauer (1949).

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