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Otto Ambros

1901 - 1990

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Otto Ambros (19 May 1901 – 23 July 1990) was a German chemist and Nazi war criminal. He is known for his wartime work on synthetic rubber (polybutadiene, or "Buna rubber") and nerve agents (sarin and tabun). After the war he was tried at Nuremberg and convicted of crimes against humanity for his use of slave labor from the Auschwitz III–Monowitz concentration camp. In 1948 he was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, but released early in 1951 for good behavior. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Ambros is the 400th most popular chemist (up from 402nd in 2019), the 3,109th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,265th in 2019) and the 68th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Ambros ranks 400 out of 602. Before him are Maclyn McCarty, Adolph Frank, Ferdinand Reich, Eric Betzig, Jennifer Doudna, and Koichi Tanaka. After him are Leo Sternbach, Julia Lermontova, Roy J. Plunkett, David Warren, Rashad Khalifa, and Jean Stas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Otto Ambros ranks 148. Before him are Ismail al-Azhari, Spyridon Marinatos, Mária Mednyánszky, Claude Choules, Ramón Serrano Suñer, and Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt. After him are Ernest Nagel, Franz Konwitschny, Yuliya Solntseva, Antal Szerb, György Orth, and Prince Christoph of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1990, Otto Ambros ranks 119. Before him are Naoto Tajima, Shigeo Shingo, J. C. R. Licklider, José Napoleón Duarte, David Stirling, and Luigi Beccali. After him are Štefan Čambal, Irene Dunne, Rashad Khalifa, Feng Youlan, Matvey Blanter, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 3,111 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Gottschalk of Orbais (805), Lorenz Heister (1683), Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), Armin Hary (1937), and Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796). After him are Hans Graf von Sponeck (1888), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Carl Chun (1852), Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Johann Rosenmüller (1619), and Günter Eich (1907).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Ambros ranks 68. Before him are Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Heinrich Rose (1795), Adolph Frank (1834), and Ferdinand Reich (1799). After him are Leonor Michaelis (1875), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Walther Kossel (1888), Carl Graebe (1841), Hugo Schiff (1834), and Christian Gmelin (1792).

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