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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 41,996 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Schiff is the 447th most popular chemist (down from 401st in 2019), the 3,833rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,148th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Chemist.

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  • 48.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hugo Schiff ranks 447 out of 509. Before him are Peter Woulfe, Alfred Stock, Johan Kjeldahl, Pierre Adet, Hans Tropsch, and Frederick Abel. After him are Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Per Teodor Cleve, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Julia Lermontova, Albert Kluyver, and Maclyn McCarty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hugo Schiff ranks 63. Before him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Julius Reubke, John Gilbert Baker, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Lyuben Karavelov, and Vilém Blodek. After him are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Todor Burmov, John Wesley Powell, Felix Dahn, and Franz Steindachner. Among people deceased in 1915, Hugo Schiff ranks 83. Before him are Pascual Orozco, Pyotr Durnovo, Otto von Emmich, Siamanto, Wyndham Halswelle, and Stanisław Witkiewicz. After him are Ferdinand Sarrien, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Bagha Jatin, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Hans von Berlepsch, and Guillermo Billinghurst.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 3,833 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick Loewe (1901), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Anna Hübler (1885), Georg Sauerwein (1831), Ulrich Matthes (1959), and Blixa Bargeld (1959). After him are Menahem Pressler (1923), Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1893), Eberhard Diepgen (1941), Franz Roth (1946), Lily Braun (1865), and Ludwig Aschoff (1866).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 76. Before him are Adolph Frank (1834), Albert Niemann (1834), Johann Schweigger (1779), Walter Noddack (1893), Michael Grätzel (1944), and Ferdinand Reich (1799). After him are Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Ludwig Mond (1839), Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), and Robert Havemann (1910).

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