CHEMIST

Richard Kuhn

1900 - 1967

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Richard Johann Kuhn (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈkuːn] ; 3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Kuhn is the 123rd most popular chemist (down from 88th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Austria (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Chemist.

Richard Kuhn is most famous for his synthesis of the chemical elements hafnium and zirconium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Kuhn ranks 123 out of 602. Before him are Michael Levitt, Lars Onsager, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, William Crookes, and George Porter. After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, S. P. L. Sørensen, George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, and Christian B. Anfinsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Richard Kuhn ranks 29. Before him are Vasily Chuikov, Urho Kekkonen, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Maria of Yugoslavia, and Sándor Márai. After him are Ragnar Granit, Alfred Newman, Hans Fritzsche, James Hilton, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Jan Oort. Among people deceased in 1967, Richard Kuhn ranks 22. Before him are Mir Osman Ali Khan, Clement Attlee, Claude Rains, Ilse Koch, André Maurois, and Jack Ruby. After him are Ilya Ehrenburg, Gordon Allport, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Rodion Malinovsky, and Johannes Itten.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Kuhn ranks 128 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738), Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), Józef Poniatowski (1763), Alois Brunner (1912), Geli Raubal (1908), and Milutin Milanković (1879). After him are Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Josef Breuer (1842), Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742), Georg Trakl (1887), Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760), and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874).

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Among CHEMISTS In Austria

Among chemists born in Austria, Richard Kuhn ranks 3. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), and Fritz Pregl (1869). After him are 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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