CHEMIST

Hugo Schiff

1834 - 1915

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Hugo (Ugo) Schiff (26 April 1834 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian naturalized chemist. The son of a Jewish businessman and brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff, Hugo Schiff was German by nationality. He discovered Schiff bases and other imines, and was responsible for research into aldehydes; leading to his development of the Schiff test. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Schiff has received more than 44,472 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hugo Schiff is the 388th most popular chemist (up from 447th in 2019), the 3,020th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,823rd in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hugo Schiff ranks 388 out of 602. Before him are Friedrich Stromeyer, Tim Hunt, Jan Czochralski, Thomas Andrews, Allen J. Bard, and Asima Chatterjee. After him are Mathieu Orfila, Albert Ghiorso, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Moungi Bawendi, and Ferdinand Reich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hugo Schiff ranks 40. Before him are Hetty Green, Ludovic Halévy, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Infanta Amalia of Spain, and Ewald Hering. After him are Kamehameha IV, Piet Joubert, Adolf Lüderitz, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Albert Niemann, and Adrien Proust. Among people deceased in 1915, Hugo Schiff ranks 59. Before him are Walter Crane, Béla Kiss, Gabriel von Max, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Theodor Boveri, and Inoue Kaoru. After him are Daniel Varoujan, Joe Hill, Adolphe Pégoud, Arthur Hughes, Eugène Jansson, and Serafino Vannutelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 3,020 out of 7,253. Before him are Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1897), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Franka Potente (1974), Charles Elliot (1801), Olga Benário Prestes (1908), and William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560). After him are Norbert Burgmüller (1810), Karl Möbius (1825), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Salomea of Berg (1093), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), and Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 66. Before him are Viktor Meyer (1848), Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), and Friedrich Stromeyer (1776). After him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Albert Niemann (1834), Otto Ambros (1901), Michael Grätzel (1944), Theodor Curtius (1857), and Walter Noddack (1893).

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