CHEMIST

Johann Deisenhofer

1943 - Today

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Johann Deisenhofer (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈdaɪzn̩ˌhoːfɐ] ; born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Deisenhofer has received more than 92,245 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Johann Deisenhofer is the 154th most popular chemist (up from 194th in 2019), the 840th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,078th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johann Deisenhofer ranks 154 out of 602. Before him are Arthur Kornberg, Ahmed Zewail, Edmond H. Fischer, Julius Axelrod, Yves Chauvin, and Georg Ernst Stahl. After him are George Porter, Kary Mullis, Karl Barry Sharpless, Robert Huber, Jerome Karle, and John Frederic Daniell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Johann Deisenhofer ranks 71. Before him are Neale Donald Walsch, Arthur B. McDonald, Mario Botta, Eduard Limonov, Lucio Dalla, and Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior. After him are Jerry Bruckheimer, Antonio Inoki, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Yohji Yamamoto, David Soul, and Arthur Ashe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Deisenhofer ranks 840 out of 7,253. Before him are Herta Oberheuser (1911), Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Friedrich Mohs (1773), and Felix Magath (1953). After him are Hugo Junkers (1859), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Hans Fallada (1893), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1792), and Gottfried Semper (1803).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Johann Deisenhofer ranks 33. Before him are Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Manfred Eigen (1927), Georg Wittig (1897), Joachim Frank (1940), and Georg Ernst Stahl (1659). After him are Robert Huber (1937), Ernst Chain (1906), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), and Hennig Brand (1630).

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