1865 - 1930
Wilfrid Voynich (born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz; 12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1865 – 19 March 1930) was a Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile. Voynich operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfrid Voynich has received more than 224,881 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Wilfrid Voynich is the 156th most popular chemist (up from 175th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Lithuania and the most popular Lithuanian Chemist.
Wilfrid Voynich is most famous for his book, the Voynich Manuscript.
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Among chemists, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 156 out of 509. Before him are Paul Lauterbur, Stanley Miller, Paul Flory, Harry Kroto, George Andrew Olah, and John Frederic Daniell. After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Satoshi Ōmura, Akira Suzuki, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Paul D. Boyer, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge.
1929 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 150
1930 - 2007
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 151
1910 - 1985
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 152
1939 - 2016
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 153
1927 - 2017
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 154
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 155
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 156
1802 - 1870
HPI: 61.48
Rank: 157
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 158
1930 - Present
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 159
1921 - 2006
HPI: 61.28
Rank: 160
1918 - 2018
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 161
1914 - 1994
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 162
Among people born in 1865, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 30. Before him are Amélie of Orléans, Benjamin Guggenheim, Jacques Hadamard, John Mott, L'Inconnue de la Seine, and Mikao Usui. After him are Valentin Serov, Rashid Rida, Gabriel Narutowicz, Gérard Encausse, Frederick Cook, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg. Among people deceased in 1930, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 24. Before him are Horst Wessel, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Ahmad Shah Qajar, and Sakichi Toyoda. After him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Adolf von Harnack, Silvio Gesell, Luigi Facta, Leopold Auer, and Jules Pascin.
1865 - 1951
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 24
1865 - 1912
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 25
1865 - 1963
HPI: 62.11
Rank: 26
1865 - 1955
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 27
1865 - 1885
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 28
1865 - 1926
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 29
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 30
1865 - 1911
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 31
1865 - 1935
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 32
1865 - 1922
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 33
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 34
1865 - 1940
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 35
1865 - 1952
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 36
1907 - 1930
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 18
1846 - 1930
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 19
1848 - 1930
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 20
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 21
1898 - 1930
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 22
1867 - 1930
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 23
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 24
1892 - 1930
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 25
1851 - 1930
HPI: 60.09
Rank: 26
1862 - 1930
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 27
1861 - 1930
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 28
1845 - 1930
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 29
1885 - 1930
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 30
Among people born in Lithuania, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 28 out of 287. Before him are Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Emilia Plater (1806), Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560). After him are Isaac Levitan (1860), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365), Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799), and Andrew Schally (1926).
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 22
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 23
1926 - Present
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 24
1806 - 1831
HPI: 62.48
Rank: 25
1932 - 2010
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 26
1560 - 1621
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 27
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 28
1860 - 1900
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 29
1865 - 1922
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 30
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 31
1365 - 1440
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 32
1799 - 1875
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 33
1926 - Present
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 34
Among chemists born in Lithuania, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 1. After him are Aaron Klug (1926) and Phoebus Levene (1869).
1865 - 1930
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 1
1926 - 2018
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 2
1869 - 1940
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 3