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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 197,423 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Richard Kuhn is the 86th most popular chemist (up from 90th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 166th 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 86 out of 509. Before him are Hermann Staudinger, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Karl Ziegler, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Konrad Emil Bloch, and Odd Hassel. After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Felix Hoffmann, Ernest Solvay, Clara Immerwahr, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, and Edward Adelbert Doisy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Richard Kuhn ranks 29. Before him are Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, Kurt Weill, Eyvind Johnson, Jan Oort, and Thomas Wolfe. After him are Edith Frank, Mahavatar Babaji, Chiune Sugihara, W. Edwards Deming, Karl Wolff, and Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta. Among people deceased in 1967, Richard Kuhn ranks 22. Before him are Zoltán Kodály, Gordon Allport, Ilya Ehrenburg, Johannes Itten, John Coltrane, and Rodion Malinovsky. After him are Françoise Dorléac, Wolfgang Köhler, Hermann Joseph Muller, Casimir Funk, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Jayne Mansfield.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Kuhn ranks 152 out of 1,237. Before him are Gustav Meyrink (1868), Milutin Milanković (1879), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Heinz Fischer (1938), Walther von der Vogelweide (1170), and Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351). After him are Nikola IV Zrinski (1508), Hermann Broch (1886), Maria Mandl (1912), Franz Stangl (1908), Helmut Marko (1943), and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842).

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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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