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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 47,499 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Rainer Ludwig Claisen is the 495th most popular chemist, the 4,395th most popular biography from Germany and the 92nd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 495 out of 509Before him are Gustav Rose, Helen Murray Free, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Zdenko Hans Skraup, David MacMillan, and Nikodem Caro. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Jiří Drahoš, George M. Whitesides, Albert Ladenburg, Frederick G. Donnan, and Nikolai Menshutkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 85Before him are Karl Moritz Schumann, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Ekaterine Gabashvili, Arthur Schuster, and Ivan Tavčar. After him are Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Berthold Englisch, Thomas Dewing, Abraham Berge, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and Leonhard Stejneger. Among people deceased in 1930, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 97Before him are Launceston Elliot, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Leonard Meredith, Gabriel Miró, Gombojab Tsybikov, and Šatrijos Ragana. After him are Eduard David, Alfred John Keene, Florian Cajori, Maria Polydouri, Rebecca Latimer Felton, and Varlam Avanesov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 4,395 out of 6,142Before him are Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Henriette Reker (1956), Markus Rühl (1972), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), and Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946). After him are Rudolph Dirks (1877), Christopher Franke (1953), Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (1943), Nick Menza (1964), Eduard David (1863), and Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 92Before him are Heinrich Rose (1795), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Peter Armbruster (1931), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), and Gustav Rose (1798). After him are Albert Ladenburg (1842), Walther Kossel (1888), Max Bodenstein (1871), Jürgen Hennig (1951), and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (1987).