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Ernst Chain

1906 - 1979

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Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Chain is the 21st most popular chemist (up from 169th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 910th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Chemist.

The Ernst Chain is most famous for its role in the development of the polio vaccine. In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team of researchers isolated the virus that causes polio and developed a vaccine that would prevent the disease.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ernst Chain ranks 21 out of 602. Before him are Edwin McMillan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Raymond Davis Jr., August Kekulé, William Ramsay, and Adolf Windaus. After him are Eduard Buchner, John Macleod, George Washington Carver, Fritz Haber, John Fenn, and Friedrich Wöhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ernst Chain ranks 11. Before him are Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, and Aristotle Onassis. After him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Luchino Visconti, Emmanuel Levinas, Josephine Baker, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1979, Ernst Chain ranks 7. Before him are Josef Mengele, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Mary Pickford, Park Chung-hee, Giuseppe Meazza, and John Wayne. After him are Nino Rota, Dennis Gabor, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Jean Monnet, and Sándor Kocsis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Chain ranks 143 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Müller (1823), Erik Erikson (1902), Henry the Fowler (876), Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980), Adolf Windaus (1876), and Leopold I of Belgium (1790). After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Walter Benjamin (1892), Augustus II the Strong (1670), Eduard Buchner (1860), Leni Riefenstahl (1902), and Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Chain ranks 4. Before him are Emil Fischer (1852), August Kekulé (1829), and Adolf Windaus (1876). After him are Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), and Adolf Butenandt (1903).

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