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Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

1835 - 1910

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Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (6 December 1835 – 19 November 1910) was a German chemist. He discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl. Fittig studied the action of sodium on ketones and hydrocarbons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig has received more than 43,314 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig is the 524th most popular chemist, the 5,011th most popular biography from Germany and the 100th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig ranks 524 out of 602. Before him are Lev Chugaev, Albert Ladenburg, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Karen Wetterhahn, and Alexey Favorsky. After him are Eugen Baumann, Robin Hill, Hans von Pechmann, Leslie Orgel, Sabir Yunusov, and Peter Armbruster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig ranks 81. Before him are Ramón Barros Luco, Theodore Thomas, Archibald Geikie, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, and Richard Andree. After him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Richard Olney, A. V. Dicey, William Stanley Haseltine, Vítězslav Hálek, and Lyman Abbott. Among people deceased in 1910, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig ranks 99. Before him are Julia Ward Howe, Boyd Alexander, Emīls Dārziņš, Melville Fuller, Emily Blackwell, and Johan Vaaler. After him are Albert Nasse, Nikolaos Deligiannis, Adolf Schwarz, Octave Chanute, Granville Woods, and Antonín Slavíček.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig ranks 5,011 out of 7,253. Before him are Michaela Schaffrath (1970), Ellen Streidt (1952), Franz Dienert (1900), Christiane Nord (1943), Sarah Connor (1980), and Frank Forberger (1943). After him are Lena Meyer-Landrut (1991), Hermann Harms (1870), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Eugen Baumann (1846), Kuno Klötzer (1922), and Hermann Martens (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig ranks 100. Before him are Adolph Frank (1834), Julius Wilbrand (1839), Gustav Rose (1798), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), and Albert Ladenburg (1842). After him are Eugen Baumann (1846), Hans von Pechmann (1850), Peter Armbruster (1931), Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), and Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824).

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