CHEMIST

Heinrich Otto Wieland

1877 - 1957

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Heinrich Otto Wieland (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈviːlant] ; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Otto Wieland has received more than 103,133 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Heinrich Otto Wieland is the 74th most popular chemist (up from 110th in 2019), the 481st most popular biography from Germany (up from 658th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Chemist.

Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist who is most famous for his discovery of the Wieland reaction in 1877.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 74 out of 602. Before him are Paul J. Crutzen, Joseph Proust, Julius Lothar Meyer, Francis William Aston, Irving Langmuir, and Hermann Staudinger. After him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, George de Hevesy, Gilbert N. Lewis, Theodore William Richards, and James B. Sumner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 10. Before him are Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, and Francis William Aston. After him are G. H. Hardy, Louis Renault, Raoul Dufy, Kees van Dongen, Said Nursî, and Gabriele Münter. Among people deceased in 1957, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 22. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi, Gerty Cori, Gabriela Mistral, Walther Bothe, Richard E. Byrd, and Irving Langmuir. After him are Joseph McCarthy, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Alfred Döblin, Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, and František Kupka.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 481 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Busch (1885), Henri Nestlé (1814), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Gerda Taro (1910), and Robert Bosch (1861). After him are Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1463), Hans Baldung (1484), John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572), Ernst Bloch (1885), Rupert, King of Germany (1352), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 19. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), and Hermann Staudinger (1881). After him are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Karl Ziegler (1898), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), and Felix Hoffmann (1868).

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