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Wilfrid Voynich

1865 - 1930

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Wilfrid Voynich (born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz; 12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1865 – 19 March 1930) was a Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile. Voynich operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world. He is remembered as the eponym of the Voynich manuscript. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilfrid Voynich is the 136th most popular chemist (up from 270th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Chemist.

Wilfrid Voynich is most famous for his book, the Voynich Manuscript.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 136 out of 602Before him are William E. Moerner, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Richard R. Ernst, Joseph Proust, John Cornforth, and Harold Urey. After him are Gerhard Ertl, Robert Burns Woodward, Paul Flory, Jean-Marie Lehn, Johan Gadolin, and Michel Eugène Chevreul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 16Before him are Warren G. Harding, W. B. Yeats, Carl Nielsen, Alexander Glazunov, Suzanne Valadon, and Sven Hedin. After him are Paul Dukas, Philipp Scheidemann, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Jacques Hadamard, and John Mott. Among people deceased in 1930, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 18Before him are William Howard Taft, Joan Gamper, Lon Chaney, Frank P. Ramsey, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and Cosima Wagner. After him are Victoria of Baden, Alfred von Tirpitz, Horst Wessel, Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, and Prince Leopold of Bavaria.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 13 out of 328Before him are Mindaugas (1203), Hermann Minkowski (1864), Emma Goldman (1869), Algirdas (1296), Romain Gary (1914), and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858). After him are Kęstutis (1297), Emilia Plater (1806), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), Antanas Smetona (1874), César Cui (1835), and Valdas Adamkus (1926).

Among CHEMISTS In Lithuania

Among chemists born in Lithuania, Wilfrid Voynich ranks 1After him are Aaron Klug (1926), and Phoebus Levene (1869).