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Max Bodenstein

1871 - 1942

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Max Ernst August Bodenstein (July 15, 1871 – September 3, 1942) was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Bodenstein is the 543rd most popular chemist (up from 557th in 2019), the 4,992nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,354th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Max Bodenstein ranks 543 out of 602. Before him are Mary L. Good, Sabir Yunusov, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Gustav Rose, Johannes Wislicenus, and Robin Hill. After him are Takamine Jōkichi, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Nikodem Caro, Frederick G. Donnan, Bruce Alberts, and Hans Goldschmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Max Bodenstein ranks 149. Before him are Oliver Campbell, Jan Kotěra, Wilfred Lucas, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Richard Gunn, and Johan Anker. After him are Anne Sewell Young, Nikodem Caro, Boris Galerkin, Theodor Pallady, Heinrich Schroth, and Sakai Toshihiko. Among people deceased in 1942, Max Bodenstein ranks 218. Before him are Heinz Körvers, Joshua Pim, Stanisław Zaremba, Joseph Dempsey, Mahadev Desai, and Lucy Parsons. After him are Käthe Leichter, William Henry Young, Nevile Henderson, Františka Plamínková, George M. Cohan, and Jonas Vileišis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Bodenstein ranks 4,995 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Lübcke (1953), Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904), Jean Malaurie (1922), Anni Holdmann (1900), Fritz Spengler (1908), and Willi Holdorf (1940). After him are Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), Eike Immel (1960), Frank Mill (1958), Kurt Biedenkopf (1930), Georg Jacoby (1882), and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Max Bodenstein ranks 103. Before him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Eugen Baumann (1846), Friedrich Accum (1769), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Gustav Rose (1798), and Johannes Wislicenus (1835). After him are Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), Jürgen Hennig (1951), Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Hans von Pechmann (1850), and Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748).

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