CHEMIST

Victor Goldschmidt

1888 - 1947

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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Goldschmidt has received more than 150,046 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Victor Goldschmidt is the 327th most popular chemist (down from 312th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 185th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 327 out of 602. Before him are Charles Friedel, Richard J. Roberts, Sendivogius, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Alexandre Brongniart, and Frances Arnold. After him are François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Édouard Herzen, Thomas C. Südhof, and Fraser Stoddart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 85. Before him are Alphonse Juin, Grigori Sokolnikov, Jean Wahl, Jakow Trachtenberg, Prince Axel of Denmark, and Royal Rife. After him are Gunichi Mikawa, Chōjun Miyagi, Hans Richter, Hans von Salmuth, Milan Stojadinović, and Masaharu Homma. Among people deceased in 1947, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 79. Before him are Helmuth von Pannwitz, Heinrich Schwarz, William Moulton Marston, Lucjan Żeligowski, Wolfgang Borchert, and Grace Moore. After him are Friedrich Paschen, Karol Świerczewski, Nicholas Murray Butler, Lilly Reich, Sándor Garbai, and Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 200 out of 1,015. Before him are Alain Tanner (1929), Leonardo Conti (1900), Julius Maggi (1846), Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), André Abegglen (1909), and Adrian Frutiger (1928). After him are Lucien Favre (1957), Alfred Escher (1819), Ivan Rakitić (1988), Guy Parmelin (1959), Carlo Fontana (1638), and Ruth Dreifuss (1940).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 8. Before him are Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Jacques Dubochet (1942), and Emil Abderhalden (1877). After him are Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), Albert Eschenmoser (1925), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).

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