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Nikodem Caro

1871 - 1935

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Nikodem Caro (Polish pronunciation: [ɲiˈkɔ.dɛm tsarɔ]; 23 May 1871, Łódź, then Russian Empire – 27 June 1935, Rome, Italy) was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur. Caro was born in Łódź, and studied chemistry in Berlin at the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (now Technical University of Berlin) and got his doctorate from Rostock University. From 1895 on he worked in the Deutsche Dynamit AG with Adolph Frank on the development of calcium cyanamide as a means of fixing nitrogen, hence the Frank-Caro process. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikodem Caro has received more than 17,824 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikodem Caro is the 494th most popular chemist, the 988th most popular biography from Poland and the 23rd most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikodem Caro ranks 494 out of 509Before him are Edward Goodrich Acheson, Gustav Rose, Helen Murray Free, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Zdenko Hans Skraup, and David MacMillan. After him are Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Jiří Drahoš, George M. Whitesides, Albert Ladenburg, and Frederick G. Donnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Nikodem Caro ranks 132Before him are Boris Galerkin, Theodor Pallady, Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, Arthur Wynne, Lars Jørgen Madsen, and Oliver Campbell. After him are Johan Anker, Joe Roberts, Max Bodenstein, Richard Gunn, Grafton Elliot Smith, and John Sloan. Among people deceased in 1935, Nikodem Caro ranks 120Before him are Anna Katharine Green, Aimé Haegeman, Herbert Ponting, Johan Ramstedt, James Quibell, and Herbert Giles. After him are Jón Þorláksson, Charles Kingsford Smith, Tryggvi Þórhallsson, Bernhard Britz, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, and José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikodem Caro ranks 988 out of 1,454Before him are Halszka Osmólska (1930), Benjamin Mazar (1906), Michał Żebrowski (1972), Adam Kozłowiecki (1911), Erich Hecke (1887), and Manfred Stolpe (1936). After him are Julia Hartwig (1921), Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Jan Sztolcman (1854), Eddi Arent (1925), Nathan Jacobson (1910), and Lina Morgenstern (1830).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Nikodem Caro ranks 23Before him are Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), Sergey Lebedev (1874), and Karol Olszewski (1846). After him are Johannes Thiele (1865), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), and Hugo Erdmann (1862).