CHEMIST

Max Joseph von Pettenkofer

1818 - 1901

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Max Joseph Pettenkofer, ennobled in 1883 as Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (3 December 1818 – 10 February 1901) was a Bavarian chemist and hygienist. He is known for his work in practical hygiene, as an apostle of good water, fresh air and proper sewage disposal. He was further known as an anti-contagionist, a school of thought, named later on, that did not believe in the then novel concept that bacteria were the main cause of disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Joseph von Pettenkofer has received more than 92,712 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Joseph von Pettenkofer is the 306th most popular chemist (down from 288th in 2019), the 1,769th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,675th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ranks 306 out of 602. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Tapputi, Martin Lowry, Leopold Gmelin, Kristian Birkeland, and Rudolph A. Marcus. After him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Yuan T. Lee, Thomas Cech, Alexander Shulgin, J. D. Bernal, and Alice Ball.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ranks 36. Before him are Richard Jordan Gatling, Maria Mitchell, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tewodros II, and Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin. After him are Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Heinrich Göbel, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Marco Minghetti, and P. G. T. Beauregard. Among people deceased in 1901, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ranks 25. Before him are Josef Rheinberger, Adolf Eugen Fick, Paul Rée, Zénobe Gramme, Nikolaos Gyzis, and George Francis FitzGerald. After him are Francesc Pi i Margall, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Iosif Gurko, Shō Tai, François-Marie Raoult, and Princess Januária of Brazil.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ranks 1,769 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Morlock (1925), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), and Jürgen Kohler (1965). After him are Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886), Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1808), Christoph Probst (1919), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), Joseph Martin Kraus (1756), and Martin Walser (1927).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer ranks 54. Before him are Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), and Leopold Gmelin (1788). After him are Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Carl Reichenbach (1788), and Viktor Meyer (1848).

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