CHEMIST

Leonor Michaelis

1875 - 1949

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Leonor Michaelis (16 January 1875 – 8 October 1949) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonor Michaelis has received more than 133,184 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonor Michaelis is the 431st most popular chemist (down from 394th in 2019), the 3,726th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,187th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Leonor Michaelis ranks 431 out of 602Before him are Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Theodor Curtius, Nikolay Beketov, Roy J. Plunkett, Morris Travers, and Walter Noddack. After him are Georges Urbain, William Gregor, Anders Jahan Retzius, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, and Heinrich Rose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Leonor Michaelis ranks 110Before him are Laurence Doherty, J. Stuart Blackton, Alexander Goldenweiser, Henri Callot, Kunio Yanagita, and Italo Montemezzi. After him are Friedrich von Huene, William Hoyt, Otto Strandman, Adolfo Díaz, Ramiro de Maeztu, and Elisabeth von Gutmann. Among people deceased in 1949, Leonor Michaelis ranks 109Before him are Frank Morgan, Makino Nobuaki, Kijirō Nambu, Elin Pelin, Émile Eddé, and Lou Tseng-Tsiang. After him are Helen Churchill Candee, Maria Ouspenskaya, James Somerville, Oton Župančič, Paul Chocque, and Edward Stettinius Jr..

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leonor Michaelis ranks 3,726 out of 7,253Before him are Adolf Merckle (1934), Rudi Glöckner (1929), Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Irm Hermann (1942), Hanni Wenzel (1956), and Erich Pommer (1889). After him are Karl Hofer (1878), Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), Robert Jungk (1913), Karl Arnold (1901), Peter Brötzmann (1941), and Adolf Martens (1850).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Leonor Michaelis ranks 73Before him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Albert Niemann (1834), Otto Ambros (1901), Michael Grätzel (1944), Theodor Curtius (1857), and Walter Noddack (1893). After him are Heinrich Rose (1795), Johann Schweigger (1779), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Carl Graebe (1841), and Benjamin List (1968).