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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

1865 - 1929

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Hungarian: Zsigmondy Richárd Adolf; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Adolf Zsigmondy is the 42nd most popular chemist (up from 75th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 120th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Chemist.

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy is most famous for his work in the field of chemistry. He is best known for his work with colloids, and the invention of the ultramicroscope.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 42 out of 602. Before him are Richard Willstätter, F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, and Humphry Davy. After him are Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and Victor Grignard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 8. Before him are Jean Sibelius, Pieter Zeeman, Rudyard Kipling, Erich Ludendorff, Archduke Otto of Austria, and Ferdinand I of Romania. After him are Arthur Harden, Warren G. Harding, W. B. Yeats, Carl Nielsen, Alexander Glazunov, and Suzanne Valadon. Among people deceased in 1929, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 3. Before him are Karl Benz, and Georges Clemenceau. After him are Ferdinand Foch, Gustav Stresemann, Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Charles Cooley, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Bernhard von Bülow, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Sergei Diaghilev.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 72 out of 1,424. Before him are Christian Doppler (1803), Oskar Kokoschka (1886), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), and Martin Buber (1878). After him are Kurt Waldheim (1918), Anna Freud (1895), Fritz Pregl (1869), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), and Peter Handke (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy ranks 1. After him are Fritz Pregl (1869), Richard Kuhn (1900), Max Perutz (1914), Martin Karplus (1930), Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740), Carl Djerassi (1923), and Ida Freund (1863).

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