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Alexander William Williamson

1824 - 1904

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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 73,726 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alexander William Williamson is the 368th most popular chemist (up from 378th in 2019), the 1,880th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,185th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alexander William Williamson ranks 368 out of 602Before him are Paul Héroult, Paul Ulrich Villard, Fritz London, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Karl Ernst Claus, and Brunó Ferenc Straub. After him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, and Auguste Laurent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Alexander William Williamson ranks 42Before him are Gustave Boulanger, Nana Sahib, Adolphe Monticelli, Avram Iancu, Pierre-Émile Martin, and Levi P. Morton. After him are Mikhail Loris-Melikov, John Kerr, Vladimir Stasov, Branko Radičević, George Speck, and Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky. Among people deceased in 1904, Alexander William Williamson ranks 52Before him are Vyacheslav von Plehve, William Renshaw, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Laura Vicuña, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, and Kate Chopin. After him are George Frederic Watts, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Samuel Smiles, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Georg Sauerwein, and Sumner Paine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 1,880 out of 8,785Before him are Millicent Fawcett (1847), Pauline Moran (1947), John Watson (1946), Frederick Copleston (1907), Lilian Harvey (1906), and Steve Howe (1947). After him are W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Noël Coward (1899), William of Malmesbury (1080), William Playfair (1759), Clive Burr (1957), and Donald Crisp (1882).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 48Before him are Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Charles Macintosh (1766), and Charles Hatchett (1765). After him are Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Luke Howard (1772), John William Draper (1811), Arthur Aikin (1773), and Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954).