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Hans Goldschmidt

1861 - 1923

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Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Goldschmidt (18 January 1861 – 21 May 1923) was a German chemist notable as the discoverer of the Thermite reaction. He was also co-owner of the Chemische Fabrik Th. Goldschmidt, as of 1911 Th. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Goldschmidt has received more than 54,746 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Goldschmidt is the 463rd most popular chemist (down from 419th in 2019), the 4,014th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,325th in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hans Goldschmidt ranks 463 out of 509. Before him are Christian Konrad Sprengel, Robin Hill, William Hallowes Miller, Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, and Caleb Bradham. After him are Theodor Curtius, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Jan Szczepanik, James B. Conant, and Heinrich Rose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Hans Goldschmidt ranks 105. Before him are Helen Herron Taft, Malalai of Maiwand, Maximilian Harden, Maxime Maufra, Dorothea Klumpke, and Nikola Ivanov. After him are Phyllis Allen, Frederick Russell Burnham, Kliment Boyadzhiev, Herbert Hall Turner, Andrei Ryabushkin, and Friedrich Engel. Among people deceased in 1923, Hans Goldschmidt ranks 83. Before him are Georg von Rosen, Georg Marco, Józef Bilczewski, Michel de Klerk, Tommaso Salvadori, and Vatslav Vorovsky. After him are Jan Kotěra, Tomás Bretón, Stefanos Dragoumis, Martha Mansfield, Tage Reedtz-Thott, and Wallace Reid.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Goldschmidt ranks 4,014 out of 6,142. Before him are Fritz Noether (1884), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Ludwig Kaas (1881), Ralph Siegel (1945), Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1658), and Gottfried Kirch (1639). After him are Jacob Hübner (1761), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Helmut Käutner (1908), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), Franz Babinger (1891), and Ludwig Biermann (1907).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hans Goldschmidt ranks 84. Before him are Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Ludwig Mond (1839), Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), Robert Havemann (1910), and Adolph Strecker (1822). After him are Theodor Curtius (1857), Heinrich Rose (1795), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Peter Armbruster (1931), and Johannes Wislicenus (1835).

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