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Otto Fritz Meyerhof

1884 - 1951

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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈmaɪ̯ɐˌhoːf] ; 12 April 1884 – 6 October 1951) was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Fritz Meyerhof has received more than 116,059 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Otto Fritz Meyerhof is the 68th most popular physician (up from 72nd in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 549th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Physician.

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physiologist who is most famous for his research on the role of mitochondria in cellular respiration.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ranks 68 out of 502Before him are Emil Theodor Kocher, Djer, Herophilos, Joseph Lister, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and James Parkinson. After him are Peter Canisius, Hans Selye, William P. Murphy, Selman Waksman, Ronald Ross, and Amenmesse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ranks 21Before him are Theodor Svedberg, Gaston Bachelard, Auguste Piccard, Walther von Reichenau, Hermann Rorschach, and Friedrich Bergius. After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Edward Sapir, Rajendra Prasad, Vincent Auriol, and Rudolf Bultmann. Among people deceased in 1951, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ranks 11Before him are Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Abdullah I of Jordan, Arnold Sommerfeld, and René Guénon. After him are Hermann Broch, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, August Horch, Otto Ohlendorf, Maxim Litvinov, and Alfred Hugenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ranks 502 out of 6,142Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Pyotr Stolypin (1862), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Werner von Fritsch (1880), Julia Drusilla (16), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are August Weismann (1834), Friedrich List (1789), Aby Warburg (1866), Kurt Student (1890), Erich Kästner (1899), and Otto Carius (1922).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ranks 10Before him are Georgius Agricola (1494), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Gerhard Domagk (1895). After him are Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), Otto Loewi (1873), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Herta Oberheuser (1911), and Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840).