CHEMIST

Jacob Volhard

1834 - 1910

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Jacob Volhard (4 June 1834 – 14 January 1910) was the German chemist who discovered, together with his student Hugo Erdmann, the Volhard–Erdmann cyclization reaction. He was also responsible for the improvement of the Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation. From 1852 to 1855 he studied chemistry at the University of Giessen, and afterwards, furthered his education at the University of Heidelberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Volhard has received more than 34,836 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Volhard is the 500th most popular chemist, the 4,616th most popular biography from Germany and the 93rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jacob Volhard ranks 500 out of 602. Before him are Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Hans Goldschmidt, Johannes Wislicenus, Edward Charles Howard, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and Elizabeth Roboz Einstein. After him are Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Adolph Frank, Ivan Horbachevsky, Julius Wilbrand, Karol Olszewski, and Christopher Kelk Ingold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Jacob Volhard ranks 79. Before him are Vilém Blodek, George du Maurier, Aleksey Suvorin, Yuriy Fedkovych, Heinrich Caro, and Louis Ruchonnet. After him are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Franz Steindachner, Adolph Frank, Manuel Pardo, Maurice Raynaud, and Princess Marie of Baden. Among people deceased in 1910, Jacob Volhard ranks 89. Before him are Louis Henri Boussenard, Pierre Nord Alexis, Georges de la Falaise, Hans Jæger, Heinrich Caro, and Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi. After him are Vittoria Aganoor, Joaquim Nabuco, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Julia Ward Howe, Boyd Alexander, and Emīls Dārziņš.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jacob Volhard ranks 4,616 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Francis Buchholz (1954), Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704), Rudolf Scharping (1947), Otto Modersohn (1865), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927). After him are Ditlev Blunck (1798), Dietrich Kraiss (1889), Hugo Winckler (1863), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), and Birgit Prinz (1977).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Jacob Volhard ranks 93. Before him are Ludwig Mond (1839), Alwin Mittasch (1869), Adolph Strecker (1822), Christian Gmelin (1792), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), and Johannes Wislicenus (1835). After him are Adolph Frank (1834), Julius Wilbrand (1839), Gustav Rose (1798), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), and Albert Ladenburg (1842).

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