1898 - 1973
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 149,362 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Karl Ziegler is the 82nd most popular chemist (down from 58th in 2019), the 553rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 482nd in 2019) and the 21st 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, Karl Ziegler ranks 82 out of 509. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Joseph Proust, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Staudinger, and Michel Eugène Chevreul. After him are Johann Rudolf Glauber, Konrad Emil Bloch, Odd Hassel, Richard Kuhn, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Felix Hoffmann.
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 76
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 77
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 78
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 79
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 80
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 81
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 82
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 83
1912 - 2000
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 84
1897 - 1981
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 85
1900 - 1967
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 86
1899 - 1986
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 87
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 88
Among people born in 1898, Karl Ziegler ranks 31. Before him are Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rudolf Dassler, Karl Hermann Frank, René Clair, Willy Messerschmitt, and Jeanne Hébuterne. After him are Kenji Mizoguchi, Julius Evola, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Curzio Malaparte, Peng Dehuai, and Fritz Zwicky. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Ziegler ranks 33. Before him are Víctor Jara, J. Hans D. Jensen, Ragnar Frisch, Jacques Maritain, Selman Waksman, and Hans Albert Einstein. After him are Charles Greeley Abbot, Luis Carrero Blanco, Jean-Pierre Melville, Walter Rudolf Hess, A. S. Neill, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen.
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 25
1898 - 1974
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 26
1898 - 1946
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 27
1898 - 1981
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 28
1898 - 1978
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 29
1898 - 1920
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 30
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 31
1898 - 1956
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 32
1898 - 1974
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 33
1898 - 1977
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 34
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 35
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 36
1898 - 1974
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 37
1932 - 1973
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 27
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 28
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 29
1882 - 1973
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 30
1888 - 1973
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 31
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 32
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 33
1872 - 1973
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 34
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 35
1917 - 1973
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 36
1881 - 1973
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 37
1883 - 1973
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 38
1895 - 1973
HPI: 64.28
Rank: 39
Among people born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 553 out of 6,142. Before him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Ernst Udet (1896), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Ernst Bloch (1885), and Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847). After him are Kurt Meyer (1910), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Erich Hoepner (1886), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), and Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750).
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 547
1896 - 1941
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 548
1096 - 1141
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 549
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 550
1885 - 1977
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 551
1847 - 1897
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 552
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 553
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 554
1885 - 1970
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 555
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 556
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 557
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 558
1750 - 1806
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 559
Among chemists born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 21. Before him are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), and Hermann Staudinger (1881). After him are Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Manfred Eigen (1927), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), and Georg Ernst Stahl (1659).
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 15
1876 - 1954
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 16
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 17
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 18
1743 - 1817
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 19
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20
1898 - 1973
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 21
1604 - 1670
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 22
1868 - 1946
HPI: 64.64
Rank: 23
1927 - 2019
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 24
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 25
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 26
1659 - 1734
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 27