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Paul Karrer

1889 - 1971

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Paul Karrer (21 April 1889 – 18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Karrer is the 39th most popular chemist (down from 21st in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Russia (down from 76th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Chemist.

Paul Karrer was a Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his discovery of the artificial synthesis of vitamin C.

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Among chemists, Paul Karrer ranks 39 out of 602. Before him are Otto Hahn, Robert Robinson, Henri Moissan, Richard Willstätter, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Linus Pauling. After him are Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and Adolf von Baeyer.

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Among people born in 1889, Paul Karrer ranks 11. Before him are António de Oliveira Salazar, Jean Cocteau, Edgar Adrian, Jawaharlal Nehru, Edwin Hubble, and Philip Noel-Baker. After him are Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Arnold J. Toynbee, Igor Sikorsky, and Thomas Midgley Jr.. Among people deceased in 1971, Paul Karrer ranks 7. Before him are Igor Stravinsky, Nikita Khrushchev, Coco Chanel, Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, and Jim Morrison. After him are John Boyd Orr, György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, Giorgos Seferis, and Fernandel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Paul Karrer ranks 78 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Pavlova (1881), Peter II of Russia (1715), Peter Carl Fabergé (1846), Anna of Russia (1693), Alexander Borodin (1833), and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861). After him are Alexander Scriabin (1871), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Boris Godunov (1552), and Feodor I of Russia (1557).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Paul Karrer ranks 3. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), and Otto Wallach (1847). After him are 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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