CHEMIST

Otto Wallach

1847 - 1931

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Otto Wallach (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈvalax] ; 27 March 1847 – 26 February 1931) was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Wallach has received more than 106,074 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Otto Wallach is the 26th most popular chemist (up from 27th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Russia (up from 106th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Chemist.

Otto Wallach was a German chemist who is most famous for his work on the structure of the benzene molecule.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Wallach ranks 26 out of 602. Before him are Friedrich Wöhler, Paul Karrer, William Ramsay, Emil Fischer, Eduard Buchner, and Albert Hofmann. After him are Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, Casimir Funk, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, and Walther Nernst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Otto Wallach ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul von Hindenburg, and Bram Stoker. After him are Maria Feodorovna, Jesse James, Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. Among people deceased in 1931, Otto Wallach ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Edison, Gustave Le Bon, Khalil Gibran, and Anna Pavlova. After him are Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Albert A. Michelson, Arthur Schnitzler, Geli Raubal, Lili Elbe, and Joseph Joffre.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Otto Wallach ranks 87 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Godunov (1552), Michael of Russia (1596), Feodor I of Russia (1557), Alexander Suvorov (1730), Alexander Scriabin (1871), and Alexander Kerensky (1881). After him are Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexandra Kollontai (1872), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Kalinin (1875).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Otto Wallach ranks 3. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), and Paul Karrer (1889). After him are Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), and Julia Lermontova (1847).

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