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Hans Fischer

1881 - 1945

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Hans Fischer (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 27 July 1881 – 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin.. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Fischer has received more than 266,839 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Hans Fischer is the 64th most popular chemist (down from 55th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from Germany (up from 439th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Chemist.

Hans Fischer was a German chemist who is most famous for his research on the synthesis of indigo.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hans Fischer ranks 64 out of 602. Before him are Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, Theodor Svedberg, Norman Haworth, Richard Willstätter, and Claude Louis Berthollet. After him are Joseph Black, Tadeusz Reichstein, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul J. Crutzen, Joseph Proust, and Julius Lothar Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Hans Fischer ranks 26. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Sveinn Björnsson, Alexei Rykov, Alcide De Gasperi, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Ettore Bugatti. After him are Georg von Küchler, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, Maximilian von Weichs, and George Enescu. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Fischer ranks 35. Before him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Fegelein, Clara Petacci, Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Hácha, and Robert Ley. After him are Stefan Banach, Hans Krebs, Roland Freisler, Giovanni Agnelli, Friedrich Fromm, and Francis William Aston.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Fischer ranks 429 out of 7,253. Before him are Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Regiomontanus (1436), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Ernst Abbe (1840), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), and Max Bruch (1838). After him are Georg von Küchler (1881), Carol I of Romania (1839), Uwe Seeler (1936), Elsa Einstein (1876), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), and Gerhard Domagk (1895).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hans Fischer ranks 16. Before him are Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Adolf Windaus (1876), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Otto Diels (1876), and Richard Willstätter (1872). After him are Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873).

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