CHEMIST

Andreas Sigismund Marggraf

1709 - 1782

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Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (German: [ˈmaʀkɡʀaːf]; 3 March 1709 – 7 August 1782) was a German chemist from Berlin, then capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and a pioneer of analytical chemistry. He isolated zinc in 1746 by heating calamine and carbon. Though he was not the first to do so, Marggraf is credited with carefully describing the process and establishing its basic theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Sigismund Marggraf has received more than 101,010 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is the 284th most popular chemist (down from 272nd in 2019), the 1,543rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,542nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 284 out of 602. Before him are Akira Yoshino, Robert H. Grubbs, Georg Brandt, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Henry Taube, and Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge. After him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Rasmus Bartholin, John Pople, John Polanyi, Erwin Chargaff, and Ben Feringa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 11. Before him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Franz Benda, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. After him are Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, Johann Georg Gmelin, Franz Xaver Richter, and Étienne de Silhouette. Among people deceased in 1782, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 13. Before him are Pietro Metastasio, Jacques de Vaucanson, Sophie of France, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Anna Göldi, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel. After him are Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Hyder Ali, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 1,543 out of 7,253. Before him are John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1455), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), Viktor Brack (1904), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Karl August Wittfogel (1896), and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756). After him are Princess Margaretha of Saxony (1840), Prince Henry of Prussia (1726), Ernest Mandel (1923), Hans Hermann von Katte (1704), August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798), and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 51. Before him are Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), and Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795). After him are John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), and Thomas C. Südhof (1955).

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