CHEMIST

Richard Kuhn

1900 - 1967

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Richard Johann Kuhn (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈkuːn] ; 3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Kuhn has received more than 212,861 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Richard Kuhn is the 88th most popular chemist (down from 86th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 152nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Chemist.

Richard Kuhn is most famous for his synthesis of the chemical elements hafnium and zirconium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Kuhn ranks 88 out of 602. Before him are Odd Hassel, William Crookes, Henry Hallett Dale, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, and Michel Eugène Chevreul. After him are Edward Adelbert Doisy, Paul Hermann Müller, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Vladimir Prelog, and Leopold Ružička.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Richard Kuhn ranks 26. Before him are Charles Francis Richter, Urho Kekkonen, Eyvind Johnson, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, and Hans Adolf Krebs. After him are Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Kurt Weill, Jan Oort, Choe Yong-gon, Arno Breker, and Karl Wolff. Among people deceased in 1967, Richard Kuhn ranks 24. Before him are Gordon Allport, Rodion Malinovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, Felix Yusupov, and John Coltrane. After him are Wolfgang Köhler, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Françoise Dorléac, Shigeru Yoshida, Norman Angell, and Hermann Joseph Muller.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Kuhn ranks 133 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Karl Polanyi (1886), Ernst Happel (1925), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), and Mariana of Austria (1634). After him are Franz Stangl (1908), Amon Göth (1908), Frederick the Fair (1289), Hermann Broch (1886), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), and Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (1559).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Richard Kuhn ranks 3. Before him are Fritz Pregl (1869), and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865). After him are 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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