CHEMIST

Richard Willstätter

1872 - 1942

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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvɪlˌʃtɛtɐ] , 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Willstätter has received more than 133,535 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Richard Willstätter is the 62nd most popular chemist (up from 72nd in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Germany (up from 520th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Chemist.

Richard Willstätter is most famous for his work on the chemical structure of chlorophyll.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Willstätter ranks 62 out of 602. Before him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Arne Tiselius, Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, Theodor Svedberg, and Norman Haworth. After him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Hans Fischer, Joseph Black, Tadeusz Reichstein, Jan Baptist van Helmont, and Paul J. Crutzen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Richard Willstätter ranks 14. Before him are Johan Huizinga, Charles Greeley Abbot, Paul Langevin, Marcel Mauss, Anton Denikin, and Emil Hácha. After him are Léon Blum, Sergei Diaghilev, Louis Blériot, Djemal Pasha, Helena Rubinstein, and Maurice Gamelin. Among people deceased in 1942, Richard Willstätter ranks 12. Before him are José Raúl Capablanca, Bronisław Malinowski, Anton Drexler, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and William G. Morgan. After him are William Henry Bragg, Robert Bosch, Fritz Todt, Bruno Schulz, Walther von Reichenau, and Franz Boas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Willstätter ranks 421 out of 7,253. Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Robert Ley (1890), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Otto of Bavaria (1848), and Arno Allan Penzias (1933). After him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Regiomontanus (1436), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Richard Willstätter ranks 15. Before him are August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Adolf Windaus (1876), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), and Otto Diels (1876). After him are Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604).

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