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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 34,066 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Anders Gustaf Ekeberg is the 348th most popular chemist (down from 324th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 286th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 348 out of 509. Before him are George Sarton, Karl Ernst Claus, Charles Friedel, Thomas Cech, Henry Taube, and Jacques Bergier. After him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Roy J. Plunkett, Auguste Laurent, Tim Hunt, and Albert Ghiorso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 28. Before him are Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Platon Zubov, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, John Adams, and Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux. After him are Philippe LeBon, Alexis Bouvard, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Black Hawk, and Jacques Laffitte. Among people deceased in 1813, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 22. Before him are Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Géraud Duroc, George Shaw, Anton Graff, and Maria Caterina Brignole. After him are Anton Bernolák, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Johann Christian Reil, Jacques Delille, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Theodor Körner.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 335 out of 1,612. Before him are Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1753), Ove Andersson (1938), Ove Kindvall (1943), and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862). After him are Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Joe Hill (1879), Eric Lemming (1880), Eva Dahlbeck (1920), Reine Wisell (1941), and Magnus Stenbock (1664).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg ranks 14. Before him are Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), and Georg Brandt (1694). After him are Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Anna Sundström (1785), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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