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Felix Hoppe-Seyler

1825 - 1895

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Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (né Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. He had discovered Yeast nucleic acid which is now called RNA in his attempts to follow up and confirm Miescher's results by repeating parts of Miescher's experiments. He took the name Hoppe-Seyler when he was adopted by his brother-in-law, a grandson of the famous theatre principal Abel Seyler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Hoppe-Seyler is the 437th most popular chemist (up from 452nd in 2019), the 3,674th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,998th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 437 out of 602. Before him are Albert Niemann, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Hans Tropsch, Louis Le Chatelier, William Gregor, and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. After him are Juan José Elhuyar, Henri Braconnot, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Michael Grätzel, Johan Kjeldahl, and Carl Remigius Fresenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 57. Before him are Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl Möbius, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Aníbal Pinto, and August Beer. After him are Domenico Agostini, Giuseppe Prinzi, Francesco Faà di Bruno, August von Pelzeln, Mårten Eskil Winge, and Emil Welti. Among people deceased in 1895, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 54. Before him are Knud Knudsen, Lahiri Mahasaya, Tomoji Tanabe, George Newbold Lawrence, Eugen Langen, and Viktor Rydberg. After him are Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, Giuseppe Prinzi, Abu Bakar of Johor, Petko Slaveykov, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Frédéric Girard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 3,676 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf III of Holstein (1160), Herman Grimm (1828), Peter Winter (1754), Ramin Djawadi (1974), Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576), and Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401). After him are Carl Schurz (1829), Adam Müller (1779), Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606), Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe (1834), Cornelia Froboess (1943), and Konrad von Erlichshausen (1390).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Felix Hoppe-Seyler ranks 76. Before him are Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Walther Kossel (1888), Carl Graebe (1841), Hugo Schiff (1834), Christian Gmelin (1792), and Albert Niemann (1834). After him are Michael Grätzel (1944), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Benjamin List (1968), Johann Schweigger (1779), Peter Armbruster (1931), and Walter Noddack (1893).

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