CHEMIST

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

1865 - 1929

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Hungarian: Zsigmondy Richárd Adolf; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Adolf Zsigmondy has received more than 123,608 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Richard Adolf Zsigmondy is the 75th most popular chemist, the 120th most popular biography from Austria (up from 141st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Chemist.

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy is most famous for his work in the field of chemistry. He is best known for his work with colloids, and the invention of the ultramicroscope.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 75 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Proust, Julius Lothar Meyer, Francis William Aston, Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, and Heinrich Otto Wieland. After him are Dorothy Hodgkin, George de Hevesy, Gilbert N. Lewis, Theodore William Richards, James B. Sumner, and Hans Adolf Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 14. Before him are Warren G. Harding, Suzanne Valadon, Ferdinand I of Romania, Arthur Harden, W. B. Yeats, and Carl Nielsen. After him are Sven Hedin, Andranik, Philipp Scheidemann, Paul Dukas, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Alfred Hugenberg. Among people deceased in 1929, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 9. Before him are Georges Clemenceau, Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Bernhard von Bülow, and Prince Maximilian of Baden. After him are Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, Aby Warburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Otto Liman von Sanders, and Émile Loubet.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 120 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883), Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (1554), Hans Asperger (1906), Maria Josepha of Austria (1699), Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), and Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886). After him are Ivan Illich (1926), Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), Helmut Berger (1944), Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377), Gustav Meyrink (1868), and Georg Trakl (1887).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 2. Before him are Fritz Pregl (1869). After him are Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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