CHEMIST

Anders Gustaf Ekeberg

1767 - 1813

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Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (16 January 1767 in Stockholm, Sweden – 11 February 1813 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish analytical chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. He was notably deaf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Gustaf Ekeberg has received more than 36,132 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anders Gustaf Ekeberg is the 338th most popular chemist (up from 348th in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 334th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 338 out of 602. Before him are Thomas C. Südhof, Fraser Stoddart, Otto Wichterle, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Nicolas Théodore de Saussure. After him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Charles Macintosh, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Carl Reichenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 26. Before him are Jean-Lambert Tallien, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, and Nicolas Théodore de Saussure. After him are Jacques Laffitte, Alexis Bouvard, Platon Zubov, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, John Adams, and Philippe LeBon. Among people deceased in 1813, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Jean-Baptiste Bessières, Giambattista Bodoni, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, and Géraud Duroc. After him are Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Johann Christian Reil, Anton Bernolák, Anton Graff, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Maria Caterina Brignole.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 303 out of 1,879. Before him are Ivar Kreuger (1880), Siw Malmkvist (1936), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1540), Lill-Babs (1938), Lennart Skoglund (1929), and Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911). After him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), Jo Bonnier (1930), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), Pernilla August (1958), Rogvolod (901), and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 15. Before him are Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Torbern Bergman (1735). After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Anna Sundström (1785), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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