CHEMIST

Viktor Meyer

1848 - 1897

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Viktor Meyer (8 September 1848 – 8 August 1897) was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Meyer has received more than 92,486 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Viktor Meyer is the 351st most popular chemist (down from 308th in 2019), the 2,458th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,937th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Viktor Meyer ranks 351 out of 602. Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Roger Y. Tsien, Carl Djerassi, Charles Hatchett, Louis Camille Maillard, and Julia Lermontova. After him are George Sarton, Leo Sternbach, Roderick MacKinnon, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Viktor Meyer ranks 54. Before him are Francis Darwin, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Henri Duparc, Anatoly Stessel, Helen Allingham, and Georges Ohnet. After him are Benjamin Baillaud, Boris Stürmer, Hans Delbrück, Édouard Detaille, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, and Albert Robida. Among people deceased in 1897, Viktor Meyer ranks 31. Before him are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Henry George, Alexei Savrasov, Minna Canth, and Léon Boëllmann. After him are David Schwarz, Antonio Bazzini, Fritz Müller, George Pullman, Julius von Sachs, and Panteleimon Kulish.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Viktor Meyer ranks 2,458 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886), Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Gisela of Burgundy (950), and Horst Sindermann (1915). After him are Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881), Franz von Sickingen (1481), Christiane Vulpius (1765), Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700), and Volker Finke (1948).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Viktor Meyer ranks 60. Before him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), and Carl Reichenbach (1788). After him are Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), and Hugo Schiff (1834).

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