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Clara Immerwahr

1870 - 1915

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Clara Helene Immerwahr (German pronunciation: [ˈklaːʁa heˈleːnə ˈʔɪmɐvaːɐ̯]; 21 June 1870 – 2 May 1915) was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights movement". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clara Immerwahr has received more than 462,806 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Clara Immerwahr is the 125th most popular chemist (down from 90th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Poland (down from 121st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Chemist.

Clara Immerwahr was a German chemist who was most famous for her work in the field of toxicology.

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Over the past year Clara Immerwahr has had the most page views in the with 57,408 views, followed by German (30,383), and Japanese (9,291). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Irish (428.83%), Galician (74.18%), and Catalan (52.78%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Clara Immerwahr ranks 125 out of 602Before her are Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, Avram Hershko, and Johan Gadolin. After her are Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, Raymond Davis Jr., Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Lars Onsager.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Clara Immerwahr ranks 21Before her are Lavr Kornilov, Ivan Bunin, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Gustav Bauer, Josef Hoffmann, and Maurice Denis. After her are Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Sophia of Prussia, Georgy Gapon, D. T. Suzuki, and Ernst Barlach. Among people deceased in 1915, Clara Immerwahr ranks 10Before her are Paul Ehrlich, Porfirio Díaz, Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Sergei Witte. After her are Leo Frank, Wilhelm Windelband, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Michel Bréal, Émile Waldteufel, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Clara Immerwahr ranks 151 out of 1,694Before her are Edward Sapir (1884), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), and Jerzy Grotowski (1933). After her are Alfred Tarski (1901), Miroslav Klose (1978), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Rochus Misch (1917), and Erich Mendelsohn (1887).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Clara Immerwahr ranks 8Before her are Casimir Funk (1884), Walther Nernst (1864), Kurt Alder (1902), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), and Konrad Emil Bloch (1912). After her are Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Richard Abegg (1869), and Sendivogius (1566).