CHEMIST

Otto Diels

1876 - 1954

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Otto Paul Hermann Diels (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈdiːls] ; 23 January 1876 – 7 March 1954) was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for their work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Diels has received more than 115,286 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Otto Diels is the 59th most popular chemist (up from 69th in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 510th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Chemist.

Otto Diels is most famous for his work in the field of organic chemistry, specifically the discovery of the Diels-Alder reaction.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Diels ranks 59 out of 602. Before him are Frederick Soddy, Adolf Windaus, Victor Grignard, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Arne Tiselius, and Jacques Monod. After him are Theodor Svedberg, Norman Haworth, Richard Willstätter, Claude Louis Berthollet, Hans Fischer, and Joseph Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Otto Diels ranks 17. Before him are Pablo Casals, Alexander I of Serbia, Manuel de Falla, Willis Carrier, Adolf Windaus, and 13th Dalai Lama. After him are Elsa Einstein, Maurice de Vlaminck, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Hermann Müller, Róbert Bárány, and Robert Guérin. Among people deceased in 1954, Otto Diels ranks 14. Before him are Colette, Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, André Derain, and Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Wilhelm Furtwängler, Dziga Vertov, Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vyshinsky, Jacinto Benavente, and Léon Jouhaux.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Diels ranks 403 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Bruno of Cologne (1030), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Joachim Peiper (1915), Julius von Mayer (1814), and Hans Luther (1879). After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), and Paul Hausser (1880).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Diels ranks 14. Before him are Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Adolf Windaus (1876), and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780). After him are Richard Willstätter (1872), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), and Hans Adolf Krebs (1900).

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