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Alexander William Williamson

1824 - 1904

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Prof Alexander William Williamson FRS FRSE PCS MRIA (1 May 1824 – 6 May 1904) was an English chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander William Williamson has received more than 65,106 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alexander William Williamson is the 378th most popular chemist (down from 351st in 2019), the 2,191st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,822nd in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alexander William Williamson ranks 378 out of 509Before him are Hermann von Fehling, Friedrich Stromeyer, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Franz von Soxhlet, and Thomas Andrews. After him are Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Peter Waage, John William Draper, Jan Czochralski, Nicolas Lemery, and Lina Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Alexander William Williamson ranks 43Before him are Vladimir Stasov, Levi P. Morton, Avram Iancu, Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Pierre-Émile Martin, and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz. After him are Antonio Ghislanzoni, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Branko Radičević, Ambrose Burnside, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, and Winfield Scott Hancock. Among people deceased in 1904, Alexander William Williamson ranks 56Before him are Eugen Schauman, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, George Frederic Watts, Samuel Smiles, Edwin Arnold, and Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. After him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Korla Awgust Kocor, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, James Longstreet, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Ferdinand Mannlicher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 2,191 out of 7,765Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), Gary Glitter (1944), Gerry Rafferty (1947), Thomas Andrews (1813), John Smeaton (1724), and Sharon Osbourne (1952). After him are Amy Johnson (1903), Robert Harris (1957), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Peter James (1948), Richard Baxter (1615), and Marjorie Boulton (1924).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 49Before him are Smithson Tennant (1761), Charles Macintosh (1766), William Prout (1785), Charles Hatchett (1765), Tim Hunt (1943), and Thomas Andrews (1813). After him are John William Draper (1811), Peter Atkins (1940), William Gregor (1761), Luke Howard (1772), William Nicholson (1753), and Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954).