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Richard Willstätter

1872 - 1942

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Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvɪlˌʃtɛtɐ] , 13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Willstätter is the 36th most popular chemist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Germany (up from 421st in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Chemist.

Richard Willstätter is most famous for his work on the chemical structure of chlorophyll.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Willstätter ranks 36 out of 602. Before him are Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Wallach, Alexander R. Todd, Otto Hahn, Robert Robinson, and Henri Moissan. After him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Richard Willstätter ranks 6. Before him are Roald Amundsen, Piet Mondrian, Haakon VII of Norway, Bertrand Russell, and Alexandra Feodorovna. After him are Alexandra Kollontai, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Greeley Abbot, Johan Huizinga, Edith Wilson, and Emil Hácha. Among people deceased in 1942, Richard Willstätter ranks 4. Before him are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, and Janusz Korczak. After him are Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, and Anton Drexler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Willstätter ranks 187 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles the Fat (839), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Baron Munchausen (1720), Conrad III of Germany (1093), Nelly Sachs (1891), and Sophia of Prussia (1870). After him are Georgius Agricola (1494), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Paul Heyse (1830), Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (1710), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), and Friedrich Schlegel (1772).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Richard Willstätter ranks 10. Before him are Ernst Chain (1906), Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Otto Hahn (1879). After him are Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Otto Diels (1876), Robert Bunsen (1811), Justus von Liebig (1803), and Karl Ziegler (1898).

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