CHEMIST

Hans Tropsch

1889 - 1935

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Hans Tropsch (October 7, 1889 – October 8, 1935) was a chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of the Fischer–Tropsch process. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Tropsch has received more than 35,249 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hans Tropsch is the 415th most popular chemist (up from 445th in 2019), the 423rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 487th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hans Tropsch ranks 415 out of 602Before him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, John Walker, Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, and Nils Gabriel Sefström. After him are Maud Menten, John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, and Kathleen Lonsdale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Hans Tropsch ranks 158Before him are Shōji Nishimura, Reggie Walker, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Antonio Caggiano, Robert Z. Leonard, and Manuel Prado Ugarteche. After him are Hulusi Behçet, W. S. Van Dyke, Ernest Marsden, Laureano Gómez, Ralph H. Fowler, and Louis Van Hege. Among people deceased in 1935, Hans Tropsch ranks 82Before him are Richard Mollier, Mack Swain, Dutch Schultz, Georg Jensen, Nie Er, and Huey Long. After him are Virginie Demont-Breton, Childe Hassam, Sun Chuanfang, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Pyotr Kozlov, and Chiquinha Gonzaga.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Hans Tropsch ranks 423 out of 1,200Before him are Mikoláš Aleš (1852), Josef Silný (1902), Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915), Antonín Vranický (1761), Věra Jourová (1964), and Leo Fall (1873). After him are Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (1875), Josef Košťálek (1909), Herbert Feigl (1902), Egon Klepsch (1930), Prince Adolf of Auersperg (1821), and Harun Farocki (1944).

Among CHEMISTS In Czechia

Among chemists born in Czechia, Hans Tropsch ranks 7Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Otto Wichterle (1913), and Franz von Soxhlet (1848). After him are Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850), and Jiří Drahoš (1949).