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Rainer Ludwig Claisen

1851 - 1930

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Rainer Ludwig Claisen (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈklaɪzn̩]; 14 January 1851 – 5 January 1930) was a German chemist best known for his work with condensations of carbonyls and sigmatropic rearrangements. He was born in Cologne as the son of a jurist and studied chemistry at the university of Bonn (1869), where he became a member of K.St.V. Arminia. He served in the army as a nurse in 1870–1871 and continued his studies at Göttingen University. He returned to the University of Bonn in 1872 and started his academic career at the same university in 1874. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rainer Ludwig Claisen is the 539th most popular chemist (down from 516th in 2019), the 4,950th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,906th in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 539 out of 602. Before him are Ida Freund, Friedrich Accum, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Neil Bartlett, Mary L. Good, and Sabir Yunusov. After him are Gustav Rose, Johannes Wislicenus, Robin Hill, Max Bodenstein, Takamine Jōkichi, and Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 92. Before him are Spyridon Lambros, Andrea Costa, Spiru Haret, Thérèse Schwartze, Friedrich von Scholtz, and Abraham Berge. After him are Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Juan Gualberto González, Arthur Schuster, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Ivan Tavčar, and Walter Reed. Among people deceased in 1930, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 112. Before him are Vintilă Brătianu, Paul Raud, Helene Lange, Gabriel Miró, Ernest Henry Wilson, and Mary Harrison McKee. After him are Evelyn Colyer, Milton Sills, Eligio Ayala, Eduard David, Peter Warlock, and Henri Cohen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 4,953 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Zürner (1890), Marco Bode (1969), Wolfgang Clement (1940), C418 (1989), Wilhelm Baumann (1912), and Frank Ordenewitz (1965). After him are Kurt Behrens (1884), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Inge Meysel (1910), Werner Peters (1918), Jens Weißflog (1964), and Gustav Rose (1798).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Rainer Ludwig Claisen ranks 100. Before him are Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Jacob Volhard (1834), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Eugen Baumann (1846), and Friedrich Accum (1769). After him are Gustav Rose (1798), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Max Bodenstein (1871), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), and Jürgen Hennig (1951).

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