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Joachim Sauer

1949 - Today

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Joachim Sauer ForMemRS (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈzaʊɐ]; born 19 April 1949) is a German quantum chemist and professor emeritus of physical and theoretical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the husband of the former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. He is one of the seven members of the board of trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation, formerly together with since deceased former German president Horst Köhler and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Sauer is the 273rd most popular chemist (down from 267th in 2019), the 1,258th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,410th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Chemist.

Joachim Sauer is most famous for being the first person to discover how to synthesize vitamin C.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joachim Sauer ranks 273 out of 602. Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer, Fraser Stoddart, Franz Karl Achard, Elias James Corey, Georg Brandt, and Rudolph A. Marcus. After him are Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, Akira Yoshino, Paul Ulrich Villard, Martin Karplus, and Thomas Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Joachim Sauer ranks 96. Before him are Alan García, Sissy Spacek, Bengt Holmström, Twiggy, Patrick Duffy, and Carl Bildt. After him are Annie Leibovitz, Philippe Starck, Homi K. Bhabha, Quini, Morten Olsen, and Stephen McKinley Henderson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Sauer ranks 1,258 out of 7,253. Before him are Lothar de Maizière (1940), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (1601), Otto Georg Thierack (1889), Margot Honecker (1927), and Wolfgang von Trips (1928). After him are Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658), Karl von Habsburg (1961), John Rabe (1882), Leo Strauss (1899), Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886), and Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Joachim Sauer ranks 47. Before him are Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), John Polanyi (1929), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), and Franz Karl Achard (1753). After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Libavius (1555), and Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794).

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