CHEMIST

Oswald Schmiedeberg

1838 - 1921

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Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg (10 October 1838 – 12 July 1921) was a Baltic German pharmacologist. In 1866 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Dorpat with a thesis concerning the measurement of chloroform in blood, before becoming the first professor of pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained for 46 years. In 1911, he testified in the United States v. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald Schmiedeberg has received more than 75,593 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Oswald Schmiedeberg is the 498th most popular chemist (down from 434th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 113th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 498 out of 602. Before him are C. N. R. Rao, Christian Gmelin, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Hans Goldschmidt, Johannes Wislicenus, and Edward Charles Howard. After him are Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Jacob Volhard, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Adolph Frank, Ivan Horbachevsky, and Julius Wilbrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 92. Before him are Gotō Shōjirō, Marin Drinov, Adam Asnyk, Gustav Neumann, Ferdinand Zirkel, and Stefanos Skouloudis. After him are Alexander Veselovsky, General Tom Thumb, Marc Delafontaine, Oskar Gripenberg, John Morley, and Octavia Hill. Among people deceased in 1921, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 105. Before him are Ludwig Knorr, Yaa Asantewaa, Władysław Żeleński, Hans Huber, Mustafa Subhi, and Fernand Courty. After him are C. I. Scofield, Jean Cau, Leo Königsberger, Rafael Reyes, Jean Aicard, and Nino Martoglio.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 142 out of 323. Before him are Eliyahu Rips (1948), Rutanya Alda (1942), Evika Siliņa (1975), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), and Werner Bergengruen (1892). After him are Imants Ziedonis (1933), Indra Devi (1899), Valdis Birkavs (1942), Andris Bērziņš (1951), Marija Naumova (1973), and Andrejs Upīts (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In Latvia

Among chemists born in Latvia, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Paul Walden (1863), and Lina Stern (1878).

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