CHEMIST

Hermann von Fehling

1812 - 1885

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Hermann von Fehling (9 June 1812 – 1 July 1885) was a German chemist, famous as the developer of Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann von Fehling has received more than 38,509 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Hermann von Fehling is the 377th most popular chemist (down from 372nd in 2019), the 2,818th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,850th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hermann von Fehling ranks 377 out of 602. Before him are Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, Koichi Tanaka, and Rashad Khalifa. After him are Ernst Otto Beckmann, Louis Le Chatelier, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Jacques Bergier, Friedrich Stromeyer, and Tim Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Hermann von Fehling ranks 38. Before him are Hendrik Conscience, Berthold Auerbach, Henry Wilson, Filippo Pacini, Melchora Aquino, and Augustus Pugin. After him are Duke Peter of Oldenburg, Samuel Smiles, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Robert Fortune, Ignacio Comonfort, and Luigi Carlo Farini. Among people deceased in 1885, Hermann von Fehling ranks 42. Before him are Aga Khan II, Nikolay Kostomarov, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Thomas A. Hendricks, and Pierre Edmond Boissier. After him are Thomas Andrews, Nicolás Avellaneda, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Amédée Courbet, and Jules Vallès.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann von Fehling ranks 2,818 out of 7,253. Before him are Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Duke George of Oldenburg (1784), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Valentin Weigel (1533), and Adam Kraft (1450). After him are August Heissmeyer (1897), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Eugen Fischer (1874), Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken (1385), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), and Gerhard Gentzen (1909).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hermann von Fehling ranks 62. Before him are Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), and Otto Schott (1851). After him are Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hugo Schiff (1834), Ferdinand Reich (1799), and Albert Niemann (1834).

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