BIOLOGIST

Friedrich Reinitzer

1857 - 1927

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Friedrich Richard Reinitzer (25 February 1857 in Prague – 16 February 1927 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered properties of liquid crystals (named later by Otto Lehmann). Reinitzer was born into a German Bohemian family in Prague. He studied chemistry at the German technical university in Prague; in 1883 he was habilitated there as a private docent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Reinitzer is the 749th most popular biologist (down from 711th in 2019), the 563rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 590th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 749 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Conrad Abbott, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Erwin Stresemann, and Richard Lewontin. After him are Francis Collins, Ardem Patapoutian, Heinrich Zollinger, James L. Peters, Johann Amman, and Élie-Abel Carrière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 110. Before him are Albert Ballin, Walter Rutherford, Helena Westermarck, Anna Kuliscioff, Alice Pike Barney, and Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar. After him are Halil Pasha, Juan Luna, John Jacob Abel, Constantin Coandă, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Christian Wilhelm Allers. Among people deceased in 1927, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 105. Before him are J. B. Bury, Paul César Helleu, Constance Markievicz, Sakina Akhundzadeh, David Arellano, and Georges Eekhoud. After him are Charles Warren, Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Klaus Berntsen, János Csernoch, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 563 out of 1,200. Before him are Christoph Demantius (1567), Géza Fejérváry (1833), Julius Zeyer (1841), Petr Eben (1929), František Škroup (1801), and Jan Šrámek (1870). After him are Karel Škréta (1610), Jiří Čadek (1935), Max Švabinský (1873), Jan Brzák-Felix (1912), František Šterc (1912), and Oldřich Lipský (1924).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Friedrich Reinitzer ranks 12. Before him are Rudolf Weigl (1883), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), August von Pelzeln (1825), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), and Franz Xaver Fieber (1807). After him are Josephine Kablick (1787), Edmund Reitter (1845), and Karel Domin (1882).

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