CHEMIST

Heinrich Otto Wieland

1877 - 1957

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Heinrich Otto Wieland (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈviːlant] ; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Otto Wieland is the 95th most popular chemist (down from 74th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Germany (up from 481st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Chemist.

Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist who is most famous for his discovery of the Wieland reaction in 1877.

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Among chemists, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 95 out of 602. Before him are Ernst Otto Fischer, Thomas Midgley Jr., Theodor Svedberg, Valery Legasov, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. After him are Theodore William Richards, William Howard Stein, Arne Tiselius, Stanford Moore, Konrad Emil Bloch, and Vincent du Vigneaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 10. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, and Joan Gamper. After him are James Jeans, Frank Marshall, Edgar Cayce, Raoul Dufy, Gabriele Münter, and Louis Renault. Among people deceased in 1957, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 19. Before him are Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Reich, Gichin Funakoshi, and Oliver Hardy. After him are Henry van de Velde, Gabriela Mistral, Irving Langmuir, Alfred Döblin, Heinrich Hoffmann, and José Leandro Andrade.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 385 out of 7,253. Before him are Pope Victor II (1018), Regiomontanus (1436), Joseph Beuys (1921), Thomas à Kempis (1380), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), and Harald zur Hausen (1936). After him are Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Hugo Boss (1885), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), Fritz Sauckel (1894), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), and Lothar Matthäus (1961).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Heinrich Otto Wieland ranks 22. Before him are Karl Ziegler (1898), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Carl Bosch (1874), Hans Fischer (1881), and Ernst Otto Fischer (1918). After him are Manfred Eigen (1927), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), and Hermann Kolbe (1818).

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