Chemist

Anders Jahan Retzius

Swedish naturalist and professor of botany, chemist, and natural history, Lund University

1742 - 1821

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His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Anders Jahan Retzius is the 444th most popular chemist (down from 434th in 2024), the 538th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 536th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Anders Jahan Retzius is the most memorable of the 10 notable people born in Kristianstad, in what is now modern-day Sweden, ahead of Gerhard Louis De Geer, Dagny Carlsson, and Anders Linderoth.

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Among Chemists

Among chemists, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 444 out of 610. Before him are Juan José Elhuyar, Henri Braconnot, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Michael Grätzel, Johan Kjeldahl, and Carl Remigius Fresenius. After him are Alexander William Williamson, James Crafts, Constantin Fahlberg, J. L. B. Smith, Auguste Laurent, and Gaston Tissandier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 20. Before him are Pōmare I, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Ignaz von Born, Charlotte von Stein, and Joseph Brant. After him are Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Félix de Azara, Nathanael Greene, Johan Herman Wessel, Alexander Ablesimov, and William Hooper. Among people deceased in 1821, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 24. Before him are Athanasios Diakos, Pōmare II, Marie-Denise Villers, Marie-Louise Lachapelle, Juan O'Donojú, and José Miguel Carrera. After him are Félix de Azara, Fulgencio Yegros, Martín Miguel de Güemes, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Georg Friedrich von Martens.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 538 out of 2,211. Before him are Torgny Lindgren (1938), Charles De Geer (1720), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Erik Lundqvist (1908), Rickard Sandler (1884), and Karl Staaff (1860). After him are Åsa Larsson (1966), Thomas Hammarberg (1942), Sune Andersson (1921), Slim Borgudd (1946), Sofia Helin (1972), and Fredrik von Otter (1833).

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Among Chemists In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 18. Before him are Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Torbern Bergman (1735), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), and Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840). After him are Anna Sundström (1785), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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