CHEMIST

Nikodem Caro

1871 - 1935

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Nikodem Caro (Polish pronunciation: [ɲiˈkɔ.dɛm tsarɔ]; 23 May 1871, Łódź, then Russian Empire – 27 June 1935, Rome, Italy) was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur. Caro was born in Łódź, to a prominent Silesian-Jewish family. He studied chemistry in Berlin at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin) and got his doctorate from Rostock University. From 1895 on he worked in the Deutsche Dynamit AG with Adolph Frank on the development of calcium cyanamide as a means of fixing nitrogen, hence the Frank-Caro process. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikodem Caro is the 546th most popular chemist (down from 538th in 2019), the 1,096th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,131st in 2019) and the 24th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikodem Caro ranks 546 out of 602. Before him are Gustav Rose, Johannes Wislicenus, Robin Hill, Max Bodenstein, Takamine Jōkichi, and Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov. After him are Frederick G. Donnan, Bruce Alberts, Hans Goldschmidt, John Roebuck, Lev Chugaev, and Emma P. Carr.

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Among people born in 1871, Nikodem Caro ranks 151. Before him are Wilfred Lucas, Lars Jørgen Madsen, Richard Gunn, Johan Anker, Max Bodenstein, and Anne Sewell Young. After him are Boris Galerkin, Theodor Pallady, Heinrich Schroth, Sakai Toshihiko, William Diller Matthew, and Fran Saleški Finžgar. Among people deceased in 1935, Nikodem Caro ranks 132. Before him are Gerhard Louis De Geer, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Pieter Cort van der Linden, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Thelma Todd, and Vernon Lee. After him are Guido Balzarini, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Jón Þorláksson, José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez, Herbert Ponting, and Silverio Izaguirre.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nikodem Caro ranks 1,096 out of 1,694. Before him are Jean de Reszke (1850), Eddi Arent (1925), Emil Hirschfeld (1903), Jan Twardowski (1915), Erwin Geschonneck (1906), and Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888). After him are Jerzy Pawłowski (1932), Käthe Kruse (1883), Johannes Block (1894), Józef Kozłowski (1757), Władysław Rubin (1917), and Dariusz Wolski (1956).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Nikodem Caro ranks 24. Before him are Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), and Heinrich Caro (1834). After him are Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), and Sergey Lebedev (1874).

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