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Otto Schott

1851 - 1935

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Friedrich Otto Schott (1851–1935) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass. Schott systematically investigated the relationship between the chemical composition of the glass and its properties. In this way, he solved fundamental problems in glass properties, identifying compositions with optical properties that approach the theoretical limit. Schott's findings were a major advance in the optics for microscopy and optical astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Schott is the 365th most popular chemist (down from 360th in 2019), the 2,535th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,579th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Schott ranks 365 out of 602. Before him are Lars Fredrik Nilson, Charles Macintosh, Karl Ernst Claus, Victor Goldschmidt, Alice Ball, and Édouard Herzen. After him are Peter Waage, Charles Hatchett, Viktor Meyer, Asima Chatterjee, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, and Morris Travers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Otto Schott ranks 41. Before him are Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Aristide Bruant, Franz von Liszt, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Désiré-Joseph Mercier, and Asa Griggs Candler. After him are Theodor Lipps, Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Alois Jirásek, Luis Ricardo Falero, Taytu Betul, and Roque Sáenz Peña. Among people deceased in 1935, Otto Schott ranks 62. Before him are Juan Vicente Gómez, Edward Carson, Bernhard Schmidt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pavlos Kountouriotis, and Aleksandër Moisiu. After him are Henry Fairfield Osborn, Henri Pélissier, René Crevel, Oda Krohg, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, and James Henry Breasted.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Schott ranks 2,536 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Christoph Schneider (1966), John Albert II (1590), Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713), Alexander Lippisch (1894), and Johann Michael Bach (1648). After him are Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Adolf Meyer (1881), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Felix Nussbaum (1904), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), and Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Schott ranks 60. Before him are Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Clemens Winkler (1838), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Carl Reichenbach (1788), and Thomas C. Südhof (1955). After him are Viktor Meyer (1848), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Heinrich Rose (1795), and Adolph Frank (1834).

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