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Fritz Pregl

1869 - 1930

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Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Pregl is the 46th most popular chemist (up from 51st in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Austria (up from 96th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Chemist.

Fritz Pregl is most famous for his work in the field of chromatography. He was the first to identify the use of paper chromatography in separating chemical compounds.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fritz Pregl ranks 46 out of 602. Before him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Adolf von Baeyer. After him are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, and Otto Diels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Fritz Pregl ranks 12. Before him are Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, and Nadezhda Krupskaya. After him are Mary Mallon, Emma Goldman, Bogd Khan, Karl Haushofer, Christian Lous Lange, and Harvey Cushing. Among people deceased in 1930, Fritz Pregl ranks 9. Before him are Fridtjof Nansen, Ilya Repin, Alfred Wegener, Mary Harris Jones, Zewditu, and Allvar Gullstrand. After him are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Christiaan Eijkman, William Howard Taft, Joan Gamper, Lon Chaney, and Frank P. Ramsey.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Fritz Pregl ranks 75 out of 1,424. Before him are Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Martin Buber (1878), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Kurt Waldheim (1918), and Anna Freud (1895). After him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Handke (1942), Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906), Alban Berg (1885), and Fritz Lang (1890).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Fritz Pregl ranks 2. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865). After him are Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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