CHEMIST

Adolf von Baeyer

1835 - 1917

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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: [ˈaːdɔlf fɔn ˈbaɪɐ] ; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature). He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf von Baeyer is the 45th most popular chemist (down from 42nd in 2024), the 223rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 334th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Chemist.

Adolf von Baeyer is most famous for his discovery of phenol, which is used in the production of synthetic dyes and plastics.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 45 out of 602. Before him are Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, and Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. After him are Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, and Archer Martin.

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Among people born in 1835, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 7. Before him are Pope Pius X, Mark Twain, Empress Dowager Cixi, Camille Saint-Saëns, Leopold II of Belgium, and Cesare Lombroso. After him are Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, Demetrius Vikelas, and Samuel Butler. Among people deceased in 1917, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Rodin, Mata Hari, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, and Eduard Buchner. After him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Emil Theodor Kocher, Edward Burnett Tylor, Buffalo Bill, and Franz Brentano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 223 out of 7,253. Before him are Augustus III of Poland (1696), Wim Wenders (1945), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Georg Bednorz (1950), Michel Ney (1769), and Walter Ulbricht (1893). After him are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), Georg Simmel (1858), Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Otto von Guericke (1602), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), and Karl Liebknecht (1871).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolf von Baeyer ranks 11. Before him are Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), and Richard Willstätter (1872). After him are Adolf Butenandt (1903), Otto Diels (1876), Robert Bunsen (1811), Justus von Liebig (1803), Karl Ziegler (1898), and Hermann Staudinger (1881).

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