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Heinrich Caro

1834 - 1910

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Heinrich Caro (February 13, 1834 – September 11, 1910) was a German chemist. Caro was of Sephardic Jewish origin He started his study of chemistry at the Friedrich Wilhelms University and later chemistry and dyeing in Berlin at the Royal Trades Institute. On the initiative of Nicolaus Druckenmüller, he trained as a calico printer in Germany, worked at Troost's calico printing works in Mülheim and then worked at the chemical firm of T Roberts and John Dale (Chemist) in Manchester. During this time he improved the analysis of madder lake. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Caro is the 515th most popular chemist (down from 491st in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from Poland (down from 989th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Heinrich Caro ranks 515 out of 602. Before him are Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, William Hallowes Miller, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Luis E. Miramontes, Zdenko Hans Skraup, and Jacob Volhard. After him are Albert Eschenmoser, Alexey Favorsky, David MacMillan, Omowunmi Sadik, Nina Andreyeva, and Bruce Ames.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Heinrich Caro ranks 82. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Felix Dahn, Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, and Jacob Volhard. After him are Yuriy Fedkovych, George du Maurier, Louis Ruchonnet, Aleksey Suvorin, José Eugenio Ellauri, and Édouard Pailleron. Among people deceased in 1910, Heinrich Caro ranks 93. Before him are Pierre Nord Alexis, Hans Jæger, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Georges de la Falaise, and Jacob Volhard. After him are Andrea Costa, Joaquim Nabuco, Léon Delagrange, Boyd Alexander, Melville Fuller, and Adolf Schwarz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Heinrich Caro ranks 1,015 out of 1,694. Before him are Igor Newerly (1903), Halina Poświatowska (1935), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (1959), Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), John Shalikashvili (1936), and Hans Lewy (1904). After him are Halina Górecka (1938), Antoni Piechniczek (1942), Halszka Osmólska (1930), Andrzej Lepper (1954), Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912), and Georg Sterzinsky (1936).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Heinrich Caro ranks 23. Before him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Karol Olszewski (1846), and Johannes Thiele (1865). After him are Nikodem Caro (1871), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), and Sergey Lebedev (1874).

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