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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 21,704 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Anders Jahan Retzius is the 420th most popular chemist (down from 379th in 2019), the 494th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 409th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 420 out of 509Before him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Koichi Tanaka, Kathleen Lonsdale, Eric Betzig, and Agnes Pockels. After him are Donella Meadows, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Nikolay Zinin, Isabella Karle, Edmond Frémy, and Fausto Elhuyar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 20Before him are Charlotte von Stein, Pōmare I, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Johan Herman Wessel, and David Bushnell. After him are Félix de Azara, Nathanael Greene, Joseph Brant, and James Wilson. Among people deceased in 1821, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 24Before him are Heinrich Kuhl, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Athanasios Diakos, Fulgencio Yegros, Marie-Denise Villers, and Pōmare II. After him are Félix de Azara, Georg Friedrich von Martens, Elizabeth Ann Seton, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Martín Miguel de Güemes, and Marie-Louise Lachapelle.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 494 out of 1,612Before him are Börje Salming (1951), Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz (1716), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Joel Kinnaman (1979), Sune Andersson (1921), and Gösta Ekman (1939). After him are Kerstin Ekman (1933), Bengt Danielsson (1921), Georg Åberg (1893), Tomas Brolin (1969), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801).

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Anders Jahan Retzius ranks 16Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), Georg Brandt (1694), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), and Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840). After him are Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Anna Sundström (1785), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).