CHEMIST

Felix Hoffmann

1868 - 1946

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Felix Hoffmann (21 January 1868 – 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesising diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of Arthur Eichengrün is contested. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Hoffmann is the 179th most popular chemist (down from 100th in 2019), the 681st most popular biography from Germany (down from 601st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Chemist.

Felix hoffmann is most famous for inventing aspirin.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Felix Hoffmann ranks 179 out of 602. Before him are Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, Max Perutz, Robert Curl, and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. After him are Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Sidney Altman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Felix Hoffmann ranks 29. Before him are Paul Claudel, S. P. L. Sørensen, Gertrude Bell, Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, and August Horch. After him are Dietrich Eckart, Edmond Rostand, Charles Maurras, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie S. D. Maunder, and Louis Couturat. Among people deceased in 1946, Felix Hoffmann ranks 37. Before him are Andrey Vlasov, Kurt Daluege, László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Marx, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and Empress Wanrong. After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr., Milan Nedić, Helene Schjerfbeck, Vojtech Tuka, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Ignacy Mościcki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Hoffmann ranks 681 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (1811), Max Reger (1873), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), and Erwin Neher (1944). After him are Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Karl Wolff (1900), Ottmar Hitzfeld (1949), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), and Georg Büchner (1813).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Felix Hoffmann ranks 32. Before him are Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Georg Wittig (1897). After him are Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Robert Huber (1937), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Joachim Frank (1940), and Hartmut Michel (1948).

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