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Carl Graebe

1841 - 1927

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Carl Graebe (German: [ˈɡʁɛːbə]; 24 February 1841 – 19 January 1927) was a German industrial and academic chemist from Frankfurt am Main who held professorships in his field at Leipzig, Königsberg, and Geneva. He is known for the first synthesis of the economically important dye, alizarin, with Liebermann, and for contributing to the fundamental nomenclature of organic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Graebe is the 420th most popular chemist (up from 453rd in 2019), the 3,361st most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,016th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Graebe ranks 420 out of 602. Before him are Brunó Ferenc Straub, Franz von Soxhlet, George Church, Otto Wichterle, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, and Walther Kossel. After him are Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Lina Stern, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Hugo Schiff, Claudine Picardet, and Frank Wigglesworth Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Carl Graebe ranks 64. Before him are Carl Robert Jakobson, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Laza Kostić, Eugen Dücker, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After him are Paul Wallot, George Turner, Karl Binding, Federico Zandomeneghi, Benedict Menni, and John Murray. Among people deceased in 1927, Carl Graebe ranks 79. Before him are Charles Doolittle Walcott, Gustave Whitehead, Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Émile Coste, Erik Ivar Fredholm, and Francis Lane. After him are Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, József Rippl-Rónai, Hermann von Stein, Georg Ossian Sars, and Ernest Starling.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Graebe ranks 3,363 out of 7,253. Before him are Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), Fritz von Uhde (1848), Ricardo Wolf (1887), William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1677), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614). After him are Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1529), Adam Ries (1492), Theodor Körner (1791), Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479), Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896), and Horst Köppel (1948).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Graebe ranks 72. Before him are Adolph Frank (1834), Ferdinand Reich (1799), Otto Ambros (1901), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), and Walther Kossel (1888). After him are Hugo Schiff (1834), Christian Gmelin (1792), Albert Niemann (1834), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Michael Grätzel (1944), and Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818).

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