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Gerhard Ertl

1936 - Today

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Gerhard Ertl (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt ˈʔɛʁtl̩] ; born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard Ertl has received more than 176,207 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Gerhard Ertl is the 118th most popular chemist (down from 100th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Germany (down from 651st in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Chemist.

Gerhard Ertl is most famous for his research on the chemical reactions that take place in automobile engines.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Gerhard Ertl ranks 118 out of 602. Before him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Harold Urey, Archer Martin, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, Avram Hershko, and Johan Gadolin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Gerhard Ertl ranks 40. Before him are Glen Campbell, Tariq Aziz, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Jim Clark, Burt Reynolds, and Albert Finney. After him are Buddy Holly, B. J. Habibie, Günter Blobel, Steve Reich, Émile Lahoud, and Ghassan Kanafani.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard Ertl ranks 656 out of 7,253. Before him are Magda Schneider (1909), Bettina von Arnim (1785), Werner Forssmann (1904), Werner Mölders (1913), Andreas Baader (1943), and Carl Gustav Hempel (1905). After him are Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), and Werner Sombart (1863).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Gerhard Ertl ranks 27. Before him are Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Karl Ziegler (1898), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Felix Hoffmann (1868), and Fritz Strassmann (1902). After him are Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Manfred Eigen (1927), Georg Wittig (1897), Joachim Frank (1940), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943).

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