1888 - 1947
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 139,348 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Victor Goldschmidt is the 312th most popular chemist (down from 298th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 161st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Chemist.
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Among chemists, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 312 out of 509. Before him are Alice Ball, J. D. Bernal, Viktor Meyer, Charles Macintosh, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, and Richard R. Schrock. After him are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, William Prout, Frances Arnold, François-Marie Raoult, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.
1892 - 1916
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 306
1901 - 1971
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 307
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 308
1766 - 1843
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 309
1755 - 1809
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 310
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 311
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 312
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 313
1785 - 1850
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 314
1956 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 315
1830 - 1901
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 316
1806 - 1879
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 317
1740 - 1825
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 318
Among people born in 1888, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 82. Before him are Masaharu Homma, Fritz Reiner, Clara Campoamor, Grigori Sokolnikov, Gunichi Mikawa, and Soong Ai-ling. After him are Hans Richter, Du Yuesheng, Paul Morand, Alphonse Juin, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and Hans von Salmuth. Among people deceased in 1947, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 78. Before him are Paul P. Harris, Arthur Machen, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Hugh Lofting, Grace Moore, and Nicholas Murray Butler. After him are Osami Nagano, Bronisław Huberman, Karol Świerczewski, Constantin Sănătescu, Friedrich Paschen, and William Moulton Marston.
1888 - 1946
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 76
1888 - 1963
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 77
1888 - 1972
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 78
1888 - 1939
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 79
1888 - 1981
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 80
1888 - 1973
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 81
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 82
1888 - 1976
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 83
1888 - 1951
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 84
1888 - 1976
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 85
1888 - 1967
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 86
1888 - 1963
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 87
1888 - 1962
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 88
1868 - 1947
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 72
1863 - 1947
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 73
1885 - 1947
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 74
1886 - 1947
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 75
1898 - 1947
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 76
1862 - 1947
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 77
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 78
1880 - 1947
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 79
1882 - 1947
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 80
1897 - 1947
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 81
1885 - 1947
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 82
1865 - 1947
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 83
1893 - 1947
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 84
Among people born in Switzerland, Victor Goldschmidt ranks 185 out of 876. Before him are Leonardo Conti (1900), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), Edwin Fischer (1886), Auguste Forel (1848), Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (1945), and Hugo Koblet (1925). After him are Bernard Tschumi (1944), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Joachim Raff (1822), Robert Miles (1969), Adolphe Appia (1862), and Ruth Dreifuss (1940).
1900 - 1945
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 179
1969 - Present
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 180
1886 - 1960
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 181
1848 - 1931
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 182
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 183
1925 - 1964
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 184
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 185
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 186
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 187
1822 - 1882
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 188
1969 - 2017
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 189
1862 - 1928
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 190
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 191
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 Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 2
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 3
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 4
1802 - 1850
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 6
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 7
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 8
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 9
1767 - 1845
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 10
1827 - 1890
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 11
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 12