CHEMIST

Heinrich Caro

1834 - 1910

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Heinrich Caro (February 13, 1834 – September 11, 1910), was a German chemist. Caro was of Sephardic Jewish origin He started his study of chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelms University and later chemistry and dyeing in Berlin at the Royal Trades Institute. On the initiative of Nicolaus Druckenmüller, he trained as a calico printer in Germany, worked at Troost's calico printing works in Mülheim and then worked at the chemical firm Roberts, Dale in Manchester. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Caro has received more than 57,071 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Heinrich Caro is the 491st most popular chemist (down from 475th in 2019), the 989th most popular biography from Poland (down from 924th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Heinrich Caro ranks 491 out of 602. Before him are Albert Eschenmoser, Ludwig Mond, Edmond Frémy, Masatoshi Shima, Alwin Mittasch, and Adolph Strecker. After him are C. N. R. Rao, Christian Gmelin, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Hans Goldschmidt, Johannes Wislicenus, and Edward Charles Howard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Heinrich Caro ranks 77. Before him are Felix Dahn, Friedrich Tietjen, Vilém Blodek, George du Maurier, Aleksey Suvorin, and Yuriy Fedkovych. After him are Louis Ruchonnet, Jacob Volhard, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Franz Steindachner, Adolph Frank, and Manuel Pardo. Among people deceased in 1910, Heinrich Caro ranks 87. Before him are Zdenko Hans Skraup, Emil Zuckerkandl, Louis Henri Boussenard, Pierre Nord Alexis, Georges de la Falaise, and Hans Jæger. After him are Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi, Jacob Volhard, Vittoria Aganoor, Joaquim Nabuco, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, and Julia Ward Howe.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich Caro ranks 989 out of 1,694. Before him are Antoni Piechniczek (1942), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Łukasz Piszczek (1985), Adalbert Krueger (1832), and Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899). After him are Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636), Hertha Sponer (1895), Ernst Degner (1931), Grażyna Szapołowska (1953), Georg Sterzinsky (1936), and Alexander Abusch (1902).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Heinrich Caro ranks 21. Before him are Fritz London (1900), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), and Alfred Stock (1876). After him are Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), Sergey Lebedev (1874), Nikodem Caro (1871), and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950).

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