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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 69,491 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Schmiedeberg is the 434th most popular chemist (down from 424th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Latvia and the 4th most popular Latvian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 434 out of 509. Before him are Edward Charles Howard, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Johann Schweigger, Jean Stas, Arthur Aikin, and Walter Noddack. After him are Luis E. Miramontes, Archibald Scott Couper, Jacques-Louis Soret, Michael Grätzel, Ferdinand Reich, and Anna Sundström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 73. Before him are Valeriano Weyler, John Hay, Henry Irving, James Craig Watson, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, and Henry Adams. After him are Gotō Shōjirō, Giovanni Cagliero, Toyohara Chikanobu, Jules Méline, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham. Among people deceased in 1921, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 87. Before him are Max Noether, Virginia Rappe, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Wilhelm Julius Foerster, and Žemaitė. After him are Lev Chernyi, Sándor Wekerle, Alexandre Michon, Dimitrios Rallis, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, and Władysław Żeleński.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 113 out of 284. Before him are Vija Artmane (1929), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), Arvīds Pelše (1899), Alfrēds Rubiks (1935), Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863), and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887). After him are Lya Mara (1897), Elīna Garanča (1976), Heinz Erhardt (1909), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), and Lūcija Garūta (1902).

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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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