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Otto Heinrich Warburg

1883 - 1970

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Otto Heinrich Warburg (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈvaːɐ̯bʊʁk] , ; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan (cavalry regiment) during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross (1st Class) for bravery. He was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931. In total, he was nominated for the award 47 times over the course of his career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Heinrich Warburg is the 40th most popular physician (up from 46th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 371st in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Physician.

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist and Nobel laureate. He is most famous for his discovery of the respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, which is the final enzyme in the electron transport chain.

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Among physicians, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 40 out of 726. Before him are Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, James Black, and Niels Ryberg Finsen. After him are Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Marcello Malpighi, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Claude Bernard, and Elias Lönnrot.

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Among people born in 1883, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 15. Before him are Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, and Norman Haworth. After him are Grigory Zinoviev, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, Morihei Ueshiba, Clement Attlee, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. Among people deceased in 1970, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 16. Before him are Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, Max Born, Nelly Sachs, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Édouard Daladier. After him are François Mauriac, Paul Celan, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, C. V. Raman, and Semyon Timoshenko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 282 out of 7,253. Before him are Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), and Maria Sibylla Merian (1647). After him are Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), and Walther Bothe (1891).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Otto Heinrich Warburg ranks 5. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Robert Koch (1843), Georgius Agricola (1494), and Alois Alzheimer (1864). After him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Otto Loewi (1873), Theodor Morell (1886), and Werner Forssmann (1904).

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