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Vladimir Markovnikov

1838 - 1904

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Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov, also Markownikoff (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Марко́вников; 25 December [O.S. 13 December] 1837 – 11 February 1904) was a Russian chemist, best known for having developed the Markovnikov's rule, that describes addition reactions of hydrogen halides and alkenes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Markovnikov is the 259th most popular chemist (up from 272nd in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Russia (up from 497th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Vladimir Markovnikov ranks 259 out of 602. Before him are Johan August Arfwedson, Richard Smalley, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Mária Telkes, Ida Noddack, and Alfred G. Gilman. After him are Stephanie Kwolek, John Polanyi, Fritz Strassmann, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Martin Rodbell, and Dudley R. Herschbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Vladimir Markovnikov ranks 22. Before him are Léon Gambetta, Princess Louise of Prussia, Anton Mauve, Arthur Auwers, Camille Jordan, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. After him are Yamagata Aritomo, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Prince Louis, Count of Trani, 11th Dalai Lama, and Konstanty Kalinowski. Among people deceased in 1904, Vladimir Markovnikov ranks 24. Before him are Paul Kruger, George, King of Saxony, Émile Gallé, Lafcadio Hearn, Eduard Hanslick, and Étienne-Jules Marey. After him are Sami Frashëri, Norodom of Cambodia, Mathilde Bonaparte, Alfred von Waldersee, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, and Nikolay Bobrikov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Markovnikov ranks 380 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Eugen Sandow (1867), and Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886). After him are Lev Kuleshov (1899), Sergei Skripal (1951), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), and Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Vladimir Markovnikov ranks 9. Before him are Paul Karrer (1889), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), and Nikolay Semyonov (1896). After him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Julia Lermontova (1847), and Constantin Fahlberg (1850).

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