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Heinrich Otto Wieland
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Person

Heinrich Otto Wieland

1877 – 1957 · aged 80

German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)

Born
4 Jun 1877 · Pforzheim
Died
5 Aug 1957 · Starnberg
Part ofGerman Empire1797 – 1918Weimar Republic1834 – 1933Nazi Germany1860 – 1945West Germany1877 – 1990

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 4 Jun 1877BornBorn in Pforzheim
  2. 1927AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  3. 1930AwardSilliman Memorial Lectures
  4. 1931AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1942AwardGoethe Medal for Art and Science
  6. 1952AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  7. 1955AwardOtto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics
  8. 5 Aug 1957DiedDied in Starnberg

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1877 – 1957).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis

Biography

Heinrich Otto Wieland (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈviːlant] ; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.

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