CHEMIST

Hermann Kolbe

1818 - 1884

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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884) was a German chemist and academic, and a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical context, and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Kolbe has received more than 106,560 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Hermann Kolbe is the 200th most popular chemist (up from 242nd in 2019), the 1,060th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,283rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hermann Kolbe ranks 200 out of 602. Before him are Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, William Standish Knowles, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, and John Vane. After him are Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Mario J. Molina, Nikolay Semyonov, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Kenichi Fukui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Hermann Kolbe ranks 19. Before him are Adolf Anderssen, Sophie of Württemberg, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Leconte de Lisle, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and Thomas Mayne Reid. After him are Mary Todd Lincoln, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Amalia of Oldenburg, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Angelo Secchi, and Frederick Douglass. Among people deceased in 1884, Hermann Kolbe ranks 11. Before him are Marie Taglioni, Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. After him are Fanny Elssler, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Alfred Brehm, Karl Richard Lepsius, Allan Pinkerton, and Hans Makart.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Kolbe ranks 1,060 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Michel Bréal (1832), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Hanns Eisler (1898), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), and Anthony of Saxony (1755). After him are Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), Julius Wellhausen (1844), and Georg Kaiser (1878).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hermann Kolbe ranks 40. Before him are Robert Huber (1937), Ernst Chain (1906), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), and Hennig Brand (1630). After him are Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), and Andreas Libavius (1555).

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