CHEMIST

Rainer Ludwig Claisen

1851 - 1930

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Rainer Ludwig Claisen (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈklaɪzn̩]; 14 January 1851 – 5 January 1930) was a German chemist best known for his work with condensations of carbonyls and sigmatropic rearrangements. He was born in Cologne as the son of a jurist and studied chemistry at the university of Bonn (1869), where he became a member of K.St.V. Arminia. He served in the army as a nurse in 1870–1871 and continued his studies at Göttingen University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rainer Ludwig Claisen has received more than 50,491 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rainer Ludwig Claisen is the 516th most popular chemist (down from 494th in 2019), the 4,905th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,381st in 2019) and the 97th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 516 out of 602. Before him are Michael Behe, Alexander Nesmeyanov, Claudine Picardet, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Marc Delafontaine, and Sergey Lebedev. After him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Lev Chugaev, Albert Ladenburg, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, and Karen Wetterhahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 89. Before him are Guillermo Billinghurst, Spiru Haret, William Mitchell Ramsay, Karl Moritz Schumann, Ekaterine Gabashvili, and William Quan Judge. After him are Walter Reed, Manuel Curros Enríquez, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Herbert Lawford, Juan Gualberto González, and Thomas Pollock Anshutz. Among people deceased in 1930, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 114. Before him are Joseph Alzin, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Gabriel Miró, Jens Christian Christensen, Eduard David, and Paul Raud. After him are Ernest Henry Wilson, Gombojab Tsybikov, Eligio Ayala, Edward Angle, Varlam Avanesov, and Sigurd Ibsen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 4,905 out of 7,253. Before him are Marita Lange (1943), Horst Faas (1933), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Max Lorenz (1939), and Gabriele Zimmer (1955). After him are Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Arno Arthur Wachmann (1902), Edin Terzić (1982), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), Hermann Lietz (1868), and Christopher Cockerell (1910).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 97. Before him are Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Jacob Volhard (1834), Adolph Frank (1834), Julius Wilbrand (1839), and Gustav Rose (1798). After him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835), Eugen Baumann (1846), Hans von Pechmann (1850), and Peter Armbruster (1931).

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