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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 194,613 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Friedrich Sertürner is the 228th most popular chemist, the 1,250th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,308th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Chemist.

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  • 28

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 228 out of 509. Before him are John Pople, Alfred G. Gilman, Herbert C. Brown, Franz Karl Achard, John Cornforth, and Charles J. Pedersen. After him are William Lipscomb, Nikolay Semyonov, William Hyde Wollaston, Mária Telkes, John E. Walker, and Sidney Altman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 12. Before him are Hugh Glass, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, and Vasily Zhukovsky. After him are Catharina of Württemberg, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, François Magendie, and Roustam Raza. Among people deceased in 1841, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 11. Before him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Ferdinando Carulli, Johan August Arfwedson, and Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno. After him are Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Minh Mạng, Friedrich Parrot, Félix Savart, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and Franz Xaver von Baader.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 1,250 out of 6,142. Before him are Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (1905), Anton Dostler (1891), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Jost Gippert (1956), Albert Speer (1934), and Sebastian Münster (1488). After him are Ernst Chladni (1756), Duke Pius August in Bavaria (1786), Ralph H. Baer (1922), Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), and Wilhelm Groener (1867).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Friedrich Sertürner ranks 44. Before him are Joachim Frank (1940), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Franz Karl Achard (1753). After him are Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Hermann Kolbe (1818), John Polanyi (1929), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), and Hartmut Michel (1948).

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