CHEMIST

Hugo Erdmann

1862 - 1910

Photo of Hugo Erdmann

Icon of person Hugo Erdmann

Hugo Wilhelm Traugott Erdmann (8 May 1862 – 25 June 1910) was the German chemist who discovered, together with his doctoral advisor Jacob Volhard, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization. In 1898 he was the first who coined the term noble gas (the original noun is Edelgas in German). Erdmann invented the name Thiozone in 1908, hypothesizing that S3 made up a large proportion of liquid sulfur. In collaboration with Rudolph Fittig, Erdmann found that dehydration of γ-phenyl structural analog of isocrotonic acid produced α-naphthol, an observation that provided evidence in understanding the nature of naphthalene. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Erdmann is the 475th most popular chemist (down from 370th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 565th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Chemist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Hugo Erdmann by language

Loading...

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hugo Erdmann ranks 475 out of 602. Before him are Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Donella Meadows, Edmond Frémy, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, and Hieronymous Theodor Richter. After him are K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Yellapragada Subbarow, Phoebus Levene, and Masatoshi Shima.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Hugo Erdmann ranks 111. Before him are John de Robeck, Damrong Rajanubhab, Robert Ford, Maironis, Meliton Balanchivadze, and Milenko Radomar Vesnić. After him are Edward Granville Browne, Florence Bascom, Ida B. Wells, Robert Emden, Tomitaro Makino, and Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Among people deceased in 1910, Hugo Erdmann ranks 79. Before him are Knut Ångström, Julien Dupré, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Emil Zuckerkandl, Tarabai Shinde, and Julius Petersen. After him are Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi, Giovanni Passannante, Albert Nasse, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Louis Henri Boussenard, and Julia Ward Howe.

Others Born in 1862

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1910

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hugo Erdmann ranks 873 out of 1,694. Before him are Boris Kaufman (1906), Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Aleksander Skrzyński (1882), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921). After him are Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Henryk Arctowski (1871), Wilhelm Hasse (1894), Jan Klemens Branicki (1689), Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Hugo Erdmann ranks 20. Before him are Fritz London (1900), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Sendivogius (1566), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), and Alfred Stock (1876). After him are Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), Heinrich Caro (1834), Nikodem Caro (1871), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), and Sergey Lebedev (1874).

Polish born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous