CHEMIST

Otto Ambros

1901 - 1990

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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 171,575 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Otto Ambros is the 402nd most popular chemist (down from 396th in 2019), the 3,265th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,208th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 52.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Otto Ambros by language

Over the past year Otto Ambros has had the most page views in the with 24,041 views, followed by German (8,127), and French (3,377). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (129.29%), Russian (98.61%), and Southern Azerbaijani (50.82%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Ambros ranks 402 out of 602. Before him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Luke Howard, Albert Niemann, Constantin Fahlberg, and Agnes Pockels. After him are John William Draper, Arthur Aikin, Fausto Elhuyar, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jennifer Doudna, and David Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Ambros ranks 151. Before him are Claude Choules, Umberto Caligaris, Hans Erich Nossack, Frank Zamboni, Fernando Tambroni, and Sergei Tumansky. After him are Daniel-Rops, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Kurt Jooss, Elias Katz, Julio Libonatti, and Werner Egk. Among people deceased in 1990, Otto Ambros ranks 125. Before him are Dodie Smith, Feng Youlan, Michael Powell, Zhang Qun, Aldo Fabrizi, and Paul Ariste. After him are Kelly Johnson, Pierre Musy, David Stirling, José Napoleón Duarte, Dámaso Alonso, and Jorge Bolet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 3,265 out of 7,253. Before him are Horst Frank (1929), Carola Neher (1900), Ernst May (1886), Hans Bauer (1927), Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (1070), and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786). After him are William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1625), Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547), Nannette Streicher (1769), Andi Deris (1964), and Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 69. Before him are Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hugo Schiff (1834), Ferdinand Reich (1799), and Albert Niemann (1834). After him are Michael Grätzel (1944), Theodor Curtius (1857), Walter Noddack (1893), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Heinrich Rose (1795), and Johann Schweigger (1779).

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