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Adolph Frank

1834 - 1916

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Adolph Frank (January 20, 1834 – May 30, 1916) was a German-Jewish chemist, engineer, and businessman. He is best known for having discovered uses of potash and creating the industry. Adolph Frank was born in the town of Klötze (now in Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt. He was the son of a Jewish merchant, who—like Frank's grandfather—ran a general store. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolph Frank is the 395th most popular chemist (up from 502nd in 2019), the 3,047th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,630th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Adolph Frank ranks 395 out of 602. Before him are George Sarton, Mathieu Orfila, Heinrich Rose, Nicolas Lemery, Fausto Elhuyar, and Maclyn McCarty. After him are Ferdinand Reich, Eric Betzig, Jennifer Doudna, Koichi Tanaka, Otto Ambros, and Leo Sternbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adolph Frank ranks 47. Before him are Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Carl Lange, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Kamehameha IV, Adolf Lüderitz, and Adrien Proust. After him are Serafino Vannutelli, Ewald Hering, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Princess Marie of Baden, Peter Benoit, and Petter Adolf Karsten. Among people deceased in 1916, Adolph Frank ranks 82. Before him are Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Patrick Pearse, Cai E, Higaonna Kanryō, and Princess Augusta of Cambridge. After him are Hugo von Pohl, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Eduard Nápravník, Artúr Görgei, and Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 3,049 out of 7,253. Before him are Hugo Eckener (1868), Friedrich Bayer (1825), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), and Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425). After him are Konrad Duden (1829), Stefan Heym (1913), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Alojs Andritzki (1914), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), and Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Adolph Frank ranks 66. Before him are Otto Schott (1851), Viktor Meyer (1848), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), and Heinrich Rose (1795). After him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Otto Ambros (1901), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Walther Kossel (1888), and Carl Graebe (1841).

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