CHEMIST

Eugen Baumann

1846 - 1896

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Eugen Baumann (12 December 1846 – 3 November 1896) was a German chemist. He was one of the first people to create polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and, together with Carl Schotten, he discovered the Schotten-Baumann reaction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Baumann is the 527th most popular chemist (down from 525th in 2019), the 4,826th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,016th in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Eugen Baumann ranks 527 out of 602Before him are Bruce Ames, James Smithson, Charles Blagden, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Michael Behe, and Darleane C. Hoffman. After him are Oswald Schmiedeberg, Robert Jarvik, Marc Delafontaine, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Nikolai Menshutkin, and Ida Freund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Eugen Baumann ranks 102Before him are Rose Cleveland, László Paál, Edward S. Holden, Carrie Nation, Arsène Darmesteter, and Pieter Cort van der Linden. After him are Marco Aurelio Soto, Nikolay Umov, Elizabeth Thompson, Benigno Ferreira, William McGregor, and Federico Chueca. Among people deceased in 1896, Eugen Baumann ranks 78Before him are Luigi Palmieri, Jane Wilde, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Hugo Gyldén, Ilya Berezin, and George du Maurier. After him are Theodore Robinson, Narciso Campero, William Quan Judge, Paul Arène, Francis James Child, and James Abbott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eugen Baumann ranks 4,829 out of 7,253Before him are Wolfgang Paul (1940), Julius Curtius (1877), Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897), Hubert Hahne (1935), Paul Matschie (1861), and Horst Wolter (1942). After him are Erich Beer (1946), Ingrid Lotz (1934), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), Günther Herrmann (1939), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), and Manfred Kaiser (1929).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Eugen Baumann ranks 98Before him are Julius Wilbrand (1839), Ludwig Knorr (1859), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Jacob Volhard (1834), and Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857). After him are Friedrich Accum (1769), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Gustav Rose (1798), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Max Bodenstein (1871), and Hans Goldschmidt (1861).