CHEMIST

Kurt Alder

1902 - 1958

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Kurt Alder (German pronunciation: [ˈkʊʁt ˈaldɐ] ; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Alder has received more than 124,494 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Kurt Alder is the 45th most popular chemist (up from 56th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Poland (up from 88th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Chemist.

Kurt Alder is most famous for his discovery of the chemical reaction that is used to synthesize polymers.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 20.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kurt Alder ranks 45 out of 602. Before him are Henri Moissan, August Kekulé, Valery Legasov, Adolf von Baeyer, Adolf Butenandt, and Gerty Cori. After him are Alfred Werner, Paul Sabatier, Friedrich Bergius, Frederick Sanger, Arthur Harden, and Fritz Pregl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Kurt Alder ranks 18. Before him are Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Nâzım Hikmet, and Alfred Kastler. After him are Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, Ray Kroc, William Wyler, and Josemaría Escrivá. Among people deceased in 1958, Kurt Alder ranks 10. Before him are Rosalind Franklin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, John B. Watson, Ernest Lawrence, Roger Martin du Gard, and Clinton Davisson. After him are Faisal II of Iraq, Milutin Milanković, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rudolf von Laban, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Lion Feuchtwanger.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kurt Alder ranks 80 out of 1,694. Before him are Jakob Böhme (1575), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906). After him are Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Carl Menger (1840), Robert Luther (1822), and Friedrich Bergius (1884).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Kurt Alder ranks 4. Before him are Fritz Haber (1868), Casimir Funk (1884), and Walther Nernst (1864). After him are Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Antoni Grabowski (1857).

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