New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

CHEMIST

Otto Ambros

1901 - 1990

Photo of Otto Ambros

Icon of person Otto Ambros

Otto Ambros (19 May 1901 – 23 July 1990) was a German chemist and Nazi war criminal. He is known for his wartime work on synthetic rubber (polybutadiene, or "Buna rubber") and nerve agents (sarin and tabun). After the war he was tried at Nuremberg and convicted of crimes against humanity for his use of slave labor from the Auschwitz III–Monowitz concentration camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Ambros has received more than 174,645 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Ambros is the 396th most popular chemist, the 3,211th most popular biography from Germany and the 68th most popular German Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Otto Ambros by language


Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Ambros ranks 396 out of 509. Before him are Peter Atkins, William Gregor, Luke Howard, Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, and Edward Calvin Kendall. After him are Nikolay Beketov, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, William Nicholson, Georges Urbain, and James Smithson.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Ambros ranks 151. Before him are Kurt Jooss, Nina Bari, Rose Ausländer, Claude Choules, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, and Hans Erich Nossack. After him are Ivan Pyryev, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Arnulfo Arias, Aleksandrs Čaks, Kjeld Abell, and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar. Among people deceased in 1990, Otto Ambros ranks 133. Before him are Gordon Jackson, Magda Julin, Feng Youlan, Dámaso Alonso, Vasily Lazarev, and José Napoleón Duarte. After him are Zhang Qun, Rodolfo Orlandini, Terry-Thomas, Rocky Graziano, Berta Karlik, and Alfred Sauvy.

Others Born in 1901

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1990

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 3,211 out of 6,142. Before him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Walther Kadow (1900), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), Heinrich Bach (1615), Joseph Görres (1776), and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838). After him are Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Gerald Götting (1923), Hildegard Behrens (1937), Peer Steinbrück (1947), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), and Klaus Wowereit (1953).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 68. Before him are Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Benjamin List (1968), and Leonor Michaelis (1875). After him are Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Adolph Frank (1834), Albert Niemann (1834), Johann Schweigger (1779), Walter Noddack (1893), and Michael Grätzel (1944).

German born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL