1851 - 1930
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, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 495 out of 509. Before 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.
1798 - 1873
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 489
1923 - 2021
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 490
1861 - 1938
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 491
1850 - 1910
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 492
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 493
1871 - 1935
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 494
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 495
1817 - 1880
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 496
1949 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 497
1939 - Present
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 498
1842 - 1911
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 499
1870 - 1956
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 500
1842 - 1907
HPI: 44.62
Rank: 501
Among people born in 1851, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 85. Before 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 97. Before 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.
1851 - 1904
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 79
1851 - 1888
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 80
1851 - 1927
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 81
1851 - 1938
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 82
1851 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 83
1851 - 1923
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 84
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 85
1851 - 1921
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 86
1851 - 1897
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 87
1851 - 1938
HPI: 42.84
Rank: 88
1851 - 1936
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 89
1851 - 1912
HPI: 41.88
Rank: 90
1851 - 1943
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 91
1874 - 1930
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 91
1858 - 1930
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 92
1882 - 1930
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 93
1879 - 1930
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 94
1873 - 1930
HPI: 44.80
Rank: 95
1877 - 1930
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 96
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 97
1863 - 1930
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 98
1864 - 1930
HPI: 44.68
Rank: 99
1859 - 1930
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 100
1902 - 1930
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 101
1835 - 1930
HPI: 44.12
Rank: 102
1884 - 1930
HPI: 44.07
Rank: 103
Among people born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 4,395 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1899 - 1950
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 4,389
1855 - 1920
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 4,390
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.81
Rank: 4,391
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 4,392
1816 - 1853
HPI: 44.77
Rank: 4,393
1946 - Present
HPI: 44.77
Rank: 4,394
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 4,395
1877 - 1968
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 4,396
1953 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 4,397
1943 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 4,398
1964 - 2016
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 4,399
1863 - 1930
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 4,400
1785 - 1860
HPI: 44.71
Rank: 4,401
Among chemists born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 92. Before 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).
1795 - 1864
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 86
1842 - 1914
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 87
1824 - 1898
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 88
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 89
1835 - 1902
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 90
1798 - 1873
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 91
1851 - 1930
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 92
1842 - 1911
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 93
1888 - 1956
HPI: 44.22
Rank: 94
1871 - 1942
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 95
1951 - Present
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 96
1987 - Present
HPI: 32.43
Rank: 97