1869 - 1930
Fritz Pregl (in Slovene also Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian and Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Pregl has received more than 65,365 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Fritz Pregl is the 56th most popular chemist (down from 39th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Chemist.
Fritz Pregl is most famous for his work in the field of chromatography. He was the first to identify the use of paper chromatography in separating chemical compounds.
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Among chemists, Fritz Pregl ranks 56 out of 510. Before him are Richard Willstätter, Paul Karrer, Claude Louis Berthollet, Hermann Staudinger, Gertrude B. Elion, and Adolf Butenandt. After him are Theodor Svedberg, Karl Ziegler, Michel Eugène Chevreul, John Stith Pemberton, Gerty Cori, and Casimir Funk.
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 50
1889 - 1971
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 51
1748 - 1822
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 52
1881 - 1965
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 53
1918 - 1999
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 54
1903 - 1995
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 55
1869 - 1930
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 56
1884 - 1971
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 57
1898 - 1973
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 58
1786 - 1889
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 59
1831 - 1888
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 60
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 61
1884 - 1967
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 62
Among people born in 1869, Fritz Pregl ranks 11. Before him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Neville Chamberlain, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Emma Goldman, and Karl Haushofer. After him are Gustaf Dalén, Mary Mallon, Calouste Gulbenkian, Hans Spemann, Maud of Wales, and Siegfried Wagner. Among people deceased in 1930, Fritz Pregl ranks 16. Before him are D. H. Lawrence, Cosima Wagner, Horst Wessel, Joan Gamper, Christiaan Eijkman, and Lon Chaney. After him are Alfred von Tirpitz, Victoria of Baden, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria.
1869 - 1947
HPI: 80.82
Rank: 5
1869 - 1940
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 6
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 7
1869 - 1939
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 8
1869 - 1940
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 9
1869 - 1946
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 10
1869 - 1930
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 11
1869 - 1937
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 12
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 13
1869 - 1955
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 14
1869 - 1941
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 15
1869 - 1938
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 16
1869 - 1930
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 17
1885 - 1930
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 10
1837 - 1930
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 11
1907 - 1930
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 12
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 13
1858 - 1930
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 14
1883 - 1930
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 15
1869 - 1930
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 16
1849 - 1930
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 17
1862 - 1930
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 18
1898 - 1930
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 19
1848 - 1930
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 20
1869 - 1930
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 21
1846 - 1930
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 22
Among people born in Slovenia, Fritz Pregl ranks 4 out of 247. Before him are Giuseppe Tartini (1692), Barbara of Cilli (1392), and Slavoj Žižek (1949). After him are France Prešeren (1800), Hugo Wolf (1860), Jože Plečnik (1872), Arkan (1952), Melania Trump (1970), Milan Kučan (1941), Edvard Kardelj (1910), and Franz Miklosich (1813).
1692 - 1770
HPI: 78.12
Rank: 1
1392 - 1451
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 2
1949 - Present
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 3
1869 - 1930
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 4
1800 - 1849
HPI: 73.39
Rank: 5
1860 - 1903
HPI: 73.09
Rank: 6
1872 - 1957
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 7
1952 - 2000
HPI: 71.97
Rank: 8
1970 - Present
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 70.42
Rank: 10
1910 - 1979
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 11
1813 - 1891
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 12
Among chemists born in Slovenia, Fritz Pregl ranks 1.