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Hugo Schiff

1834 - 1915

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Hugo (Ugo) Schiff (26 April 1834 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian naturalized chemist. The son of a Jewish businessman and brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff, Hugo Schiff was German by nationality. He discovered Schiff bases and other imines, and was responsible for research into aldehydes; leading to his development of the Schiff test. He also worked in the field of amino acids and the Biuret reagent. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Schiff is the 424th most popular chemist (down from 388th in 2019), the 3,447th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,020th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hugo Schiff ranks 424 out of 602. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Walther Kossel, Carl Graebe, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Lina Stern, and Coenraad Johannes van Houten. After him are Claudine Picardet, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Georges Urbain, Christian Gmelin, and Jacques-Louis Soret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hugo Schiff ranks 55. Before him are Ewald Hering, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Princess Marie of Baden, Peter Benoit, Petter Adolf Karsten, and Julius Reubke. After him are Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Piet Joubert, Albert Niemann, John Gilbert Baker, William Chester Minor, and Frederick DuCane Godman. Among people deceased in 1915, Hugo Schiff ranks 68. Before him are Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Morgan Robertson, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Raffaello Giovagnoli, Arthur Hughes, and Booker T. Washington. After him are Béla Kiss, Louis Pergaud, Stojan Novaković, Mari Beyleryan, Fanny Crosby, and Ferdinand Sarrien.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 3,449 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Reinecke (1872), Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), Hans Talhoffer (1420), and Heinrich Hübschmann (1848). After him are Rolf Singer (1906), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Manfred Weber (1972), Friedrich Christiansen (1879), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), and Ludwig Richter (1803).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Hugo Schiff ranks 73. Before him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Otto Ambros (1901), Leonor Michaelis (1875), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Walther Kossel (1888), and Carl Graebe (1841). After him are Christian Gmelin (1792), Albert Niemann (1834), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Michael Grätzel (1944), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), and Benjamin List (1968).

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