1869 - 1930
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-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 94,336 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Fritz Pregl is the 53rd most popular chemist (up from 56th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Austria (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian 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 53 out of 509. Before him are Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, Francis William Aston, Tu Youyou, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Paul Sabatier. After him are Adolf Butenandt, Hans Fischer, Kurt Alder, Jacques Monod, Melvin Calvin, and Claude Louis Berthollet.
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 49
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 50
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 51
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 52
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 53
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 54
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 55
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 56
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 57
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 58
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 59
Among people born in 1869, Fritz Pregl ranks 11. Before him are André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Karl Haushofer, and Emma Goldman. After him are Hans Spemann, Kasturba Gandhi, Maud of Wales, Rudolf Otto, Frederick Trump, and Calouste Gulbenkian. Among people deceased in 1930, Fritz Pregl ranks 13. Before him are Zewditu, Allvar Gullstrand, Cosima Wagner, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Christiaan Eijkman, and Victoria of Baden. After him are D. H. Lawrence, Joan Gamper, Alfred von Tirpitz, Lon Chaney, Horst Wessel, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria.
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 5
1869 - 1947
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 6
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 7
1869 - 1939
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 8
1869 - 1946
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 9
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 10
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 11
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 12
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 13
1869 - 1938
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 14
1869 - 1937
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 15
1869 - 1918
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 16
1869 - 1955
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 17
1876 - 1930
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 7
1862 - 1930
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 8
1837 - 1930
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 9
1870 - 1930
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 10
1858 - 1930
HPI: 67.11
Rank: 11
1862 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 12
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 13
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 14
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 15
1849 - 1930
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 16
1883 - 1930
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 17
1907 - 1930
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 18
1846 - 1930
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 19
Among people born in Austria, Fritz Pregl ranks 117 out of 1,237. Before him are Saint Florian (250), Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria (1746), Józef Poniatowski (1763), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743), Karl Polanyi (1886), and Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (1339). After him are Otto of Greece (1815), Karl von Frisch (1886), Josef Breuer (1842), Amon Göth (1908), Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865).
250 - 304
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 111
1746 - 1804
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 112
1763 - 1813
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 113
1743 - 1808
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 114
1886 - 1964
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 115
1339 - 1365
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 116
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 117
1815 - 1867
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 118
1886 - 1982
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 119
1842 - 1925
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 120
1908 - 1946
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 121
1633 - 1654
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 122
1865 - 1950
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 123
Among chemists born in Austria, Fritz Pregl ranks 1. After him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 1
1865 - 1929
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 2
1900 - 1967
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 3
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 4
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 5
1858 - 1929
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 6
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 7
1923 - 2015
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 8
1863 - 1914
HPI: 40.24
Rank: 9