CHEMIST

Karl Ziegler

1898 - 1973

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Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Ziegler has received more than 157,153 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Karl Ziegler is the 97th most popular chemist (down from 82nd in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from Germany (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Chemist.

Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 for his work on organometallic chemistry.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Karl Ziegler ranks 97 out of 602. Before him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Katalin Karikó. After him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Hoffmann, William Giauque, Stanford Moore, and Paul Berg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Karl Ziegler ranks 28. Before him are Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Rodion Malinovsky, Rudolf Dassler, Henry Moore, and Ahmad Shah Qajar. After him are René Clair, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Willy Messerschmitt, Curzio Malaparte, Jeanne Hébuterne, and Trofim Lysenko. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Ziegler ranks 35. Before him are Anna Magnani, Ragnar Frisch, Hans Albert Einstein, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Selman Waksman, and Jacques Maritain. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Walter Rudolf Hess, Gerard Kuiper, Jean-Pierre Melville, Amílcar Cabral, and François Cevert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 588 out of 7,253. Before him are Bert Hellinger (1925), Walter Scheel (1919), Roman Herzog (1934), Robert the Strong (900), Widukind (755), and Andreas Brehme (1960). After him are Nina Hagen (1955), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Ludwig Tieck (1773), August Bebel (1840), and Heinrich Brüning (1885).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 23. Before him are Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873). After him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), and Manfred Eigen (1927).

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