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Otto Wallach

1847 - 1931

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Otto Wallach (German pronunciation: [ˈɔto ˈvalax] ; 27 March 1847 – 26 February 1931) was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on alicyclic compounds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wallach is the 31st most popular chemist (down from 26th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 87th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Chemist.

Otto Wallach was a German chemist who is most famous for his work on the structure of the benzene molecule.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Wallach ranks 31 out of 602. Before him are Fritz Haber, John Fenn, Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, and Hans Adolf Krebs. After him are Alexander R. Todd, Otto Hahn, Robert Robinson, Henri Moissan, Richard Willstätter, and F. Sherwood Rowland.

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Among people born in 1847, Otto Wallach ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul von Hindenburg, and Maria Feodorovna. After him are Bram Stoker, Auguste Escoffier, Joseph Pulitzer, Jesse James, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Georges Sorel, and Jean Casimir-Perier. Among people deceased in 1931, Otto Wallach ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Edison, Khalil Gibran, and Albert A. Michelson. After him are Gustave Le Bon, Anna Pavlova, Louise, Princess Royal, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Omar Mukhtar, Arthur Schnitzler, Lili Elbe, and Bhagat Singh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Otto Wallach ranks 62 out of 3,761. Before him are Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alexander Kerensky (1881), Georg Cantor (1845), Rurik (830), Peter Kropotkin (1842), and Frederick I of Prussia (1657). After him are Yaroslav the Wise (978), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Boris Spassky (1937), Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899), and Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Otto Wallach ranks 2. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834). After him are Paul Karrer (1889), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

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