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Albrecht Kossel

1853 - 1927

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Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈkɔsl̩] ; 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the chemical composition of nucleic acids, the genetic substance of biological cells. Kossel isolated and described the five organic compounds that are present in nucleic acid: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil. These compounds were later shown to be nucleobases, and are key in the formation of DNA and RNA, the genetic material found in all living cells. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Kossel is the 32nd most popular biologist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Germany (up from 381st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Biologist.

Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist who was most famous for his work in determining the chemical composition of nucleic acids.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Albrecht Kossel ranks 32 out of 1,097. Before him are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, Luc Montagnier, and Maria Sibylla Merian. After him are Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, George Smith, Trofim Lysenko, Barbara McClintock, and John Edward Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Albrecht Kossel ranks 6. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, Cecil Rhodes, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. After him are Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Chulalongkorn, Carl Larsson, José Martí, Aleksei Brusilov, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1927, Albrecht Kossel ranks 8. Before him are Isadora Duncan, Carlota of Mexico, Ferdinand I of Romania, Willem Einthoven, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and Juan Gris. After him are Gaston Leroux, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Hugo Ball, Andranik, Jerome K. Jerome, and Georg Brandes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Kossel ranks 291 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Walther Bothe (1891), Sepp Dietrich (1892), and Caroline Herschel (1750). After him are Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), John of Austria (1547), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Ernst Ruska (1906), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), and Michael Ende (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Albrecht Kossel ranks 3. Before him are Ernst Haeckel (1834), and Maria Sibylla Merian (1647). After him are Peter Simon Pallas (1741), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), Ernst Mayr (1904), and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942).

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