CHEMIST

Anders Jahan Retzius

1742 - 1821

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Anders Jahan Retzius (3 October 1742 – 6 October 1821) was a Swedish chemist, botanist and entomologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Jahan Retzius has received more than 23,083 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anders Jahan Retzius is the 434th most popular chemist (down from 420th in 2019), the 536th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 493rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 434 out of 602. Before him are Roy J. Plunkett, Morris Travers, Walter Noddack, Leonor Michaelis, Georges Urbain, and William Gregor. After him are Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, Lars Fredrik Nilson, and Juan José Elhuyar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 20. Before him are Charlotte von Stein, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Nathanael Greene, Pōmare I, and Johan Herman Wessel. After him are Joseph Brant, Félix de Azara, David Bushnell, James Wilson, Alexander Ablesimov, and William Hooper. Among people deceased in 1821, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 23. Before him are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, José Miguel Carrera, Juan O'Donojú, Athanasios Diakos, Heinrich Kuhl, and Fulgencio Yegros. After him are Constance Mayer, Pōmare II, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Félix de Azara, Martín Miguel de Güemes, and Georg Friedrich von Martens.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 536 out of 1,879. Before him are Ernst Josephson (1851), Lennart Bergelin (1925), Hans Alfredson (1931), Gunnar Eriksson (1921), Carl Fredrik Hill (1849), and Henry Eriksson (1920). After him are Jenny Nyström (1854), Sune Andersson (1921), Anna Sundström (1785), Sonja Edström (1930), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), and Harald Cramér (1893).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 17. Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), and Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787). After him are Anna Sundström (1785), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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