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Emil Abderhalden

1877 - 1950

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Emil Abderhalden (9 March 1877 – 5 August 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigour remains unclear. Abderhalden's drying pistol, used in chemistry, was first described by one of his students in a textbook Abderhalden edited. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Abderhalden is the 250th most popular chemist (up from 258th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 134th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Emil Abderhalden ranks 250 out of 602. Before him are Walter Gilbert, Arieh Warshel, Henri Victor Regnault, Luis Federico Leloir, Mario J. Molina, and Kary Mullis. After him are Jacques Dubochet, Ryōji Noyori, Johan August Arfwedson, Richard Smalley, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Mária Telkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Emil Abderhalden ranks 30. Before him are Mykola Leontovych, Aga Khan III, Henry Norris Russell, Enrico De Nicola, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and Karl Abraham. After him are Plutarco Elías Calles, Oswald Avery, Alfred Kubin, Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, and André Maginot. Among people deceased in 1950, Emil Abderhalden ranks 31. Before him are Roman Shukhevych, Nicolai Hartmann, Cesare Pavese, Max Beckmann, Kuniaki Koiso, and Ryuzo Shimizu. After him are Petre Dumitrescu, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Dinu Lipatti, Mao Anying, John Rabe, and Emmanuel Mounier.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Emil Abderhalden ranks 111 out of 1,015. Before him are Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis Agassiz (1807), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Jakob Steiner (1796), Henri Guisan (1874), and Gianni Infantino (1970). After him are Jacques Dubochet (1942), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), César Ritz (1850), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), and Charles Bonnet (1720).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Emil Abderhalden ranks 5. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938). After him are Jacques Dubochet (1942), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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