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Otto Heinrich Warburg

1883 - 1970

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Otto Heinrich Warburg (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈvaːɐ̯bʊʁk] , ; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan (cavalry regiment) during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross (1st Class) for bravery. He was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Heinrich Warburg has received more than 1,146,527 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Otto Heinrich Warburg is the 46th most popular physician (down from 43rd in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Germany (down from 329th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Physician.

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist and Nobel laureate. He is most famous for his discovery of the respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, which is the final enzyme in the electron transport chain.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 46 out of 726. Before him are Polycarp, Virginia Apgar, Emil Kraepelin, Ambroise Paré, Hua Tuo, and Samuel Hahnemann. After him are Christiaan Eijkman, Hilary of Poitiers, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Franz Mesmer, Eugen Bleuler, and Herbert Spencer Gasser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 19. Before him are Grigory Zinoviev, Clement Attlee, Victor Francis Hess, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, and Morihei Ueshiba. After him are Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, Theo van Doesburg, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, and Johannes Blaskowitz. Among people deceased in 1970, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 20. Before him are Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Édouard Daladier, and Paul Celan. After him are Rudolf Carnap, Semyon Timoshenko, Leslie Groves, C. V. Raman, Eric Berne, and Jochen Rindt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 371 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Joachim Gauck (1940), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486). After him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Chlodio (393), Peter Behrens (1868), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Joachim Löw (1960), and Otto Lilienthal (1848).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 7. Before him are Robert Koch (1843), Josef Mengele (1911), Alois Alzheimer (1864), Georgius Agricola (1494), Emil Kraepelin (1856), and Samuel Hahnemann (1755). After him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), and Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935).

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