CHEMIST

Joachim Sauer

1949 - Today

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Joachim Sauer ForMemRS (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈzaʊɐ]; born 19 April 1949) is a German quantum chemist and professor emeritus of physical and theoretical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the husband of the former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Sauer has received more than 1,495,457 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Joachim Sauer is the 267th most popular chemist (down from 126th in 2019), the 1,410th most popular biography from Germany (down from 739th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Chemist.

Joachim Sauer is most famous for being the first person to discover how to synthesize vitamin C.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joachim Sauer ranks 267 out of 602. Before him are Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, Kaoru Ishikawa, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Martin Karplus, and Locusta. After him are Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, Wilfrid Voynich, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Vladimir Markovnikov, and Richard Abegg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Joachim Sauer ranks 91. Before him are Paloma Picasso, Bei Dao, Larry Holmes, Annie Leibovitz, Quini, and Josephine Chaplin. After him are Twiggy, Han Duck-soo, Salif Keita, Bo Xilai, Axel Honneth, and Alan García.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Sauer ranks 1,410 out of 7,253. Before him are Gottfried Böhm (1920), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Toni Kroos (1990), Joachim Fest (1926), Maria Reiche (1903), and Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849). After him are Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Bernt Notke (1435), Brigitte Helm (1906), Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Tarkan (1972), and Sepp Herberger (1897).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Joachim Sauer ranks 48. Before him are Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Andreas Libavius (1555), and Feodor Lynen (1911). After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818).

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