The Most Famous

Chemists from Finland

This page contains a list of the greatest Finnish Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 2 of which were born in Finland. This makes Finland the birth place of the 28th most number of Chemists behind Lithuania and Mexico.

Top 2 Finnish Chemists

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Finnish Chemists of all time. This list of famous Finnish Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

#1
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1895 - 1973
HPI 73.4264 langs
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen is best known for his work on the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala.
#2
Johan Gadolin
1760 - 1852
HPI 71.9549 langs
Johan Gadolin is most famous for his discovery of the element yttrium.

Top 2 Finnish Chemists

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Johan Gadolin