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Hermann Staudinger

1881 - 1965

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Hermann Staudinger (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃtaʊ̯dɪŋɐ] ; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for his discovery of ketenes and of the Staudinger reaction. Staudinger, together with Leopold Ružička, also elucidated the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and II in the 1920s, enabling the development of pyrethroid insecticides in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Staudinger is the 73rd most popular chemist, the 478th most popular biography from Germany and the 18th most popular German Chemist.

Hermann Staudinger is most famous for discovering that polymers are made up of long chains of repeating molecules, which he called macromolecules.

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Among chemists, Hermann Staudinger ranks 73 out of 602. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul J. Crutzen, Joseph Proust, Julius Lothar Meyer, Francis William Aston, and Irving Langmuir. After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, George de Hevesy, Gilbert N. Lewis, and Theodore William Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Hermann Staudinger ranks 30. Before him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ettore Bugatti, Hans Fischer, Georg von Küchler, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Irving Langmuir. After him are Maximilian von Weichs, George Enescu, Władysław Sikorski, François Darlan, Walter Rudolf Hess, and Erwin von Witzleben. Among people deceased in 1965, Hermann Staudinger ranks 15. Before him are Stan Laurel, Edward Victor Appleton, Eli Cohen, Louise Mountbatten, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and Maxime Weygand. After him are T. S. Eliot, W. Somerset Maugham, Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, Nat King Cole, and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Staudinger ranks 478 out of 7,253. Before him are Walther Rathenau (1867), Werner von Fritsch (1880), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837), Ernst Busch (1885), Henri Nestlé (1814), and Wilhelm Schickard (1592). After him are Gerda Taro (1910), Robert Bosch (1861), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1463), Hans Baldung (1484), and John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hermann Staudinger ranks 18. Before him are Adolf Windaus (1876), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Hans Fischer (1881), and Julius Lothar Meyer (1830). After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Karl Ziegler (1898), and Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743).

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