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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 93,977 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is the 272nd most popular chemist (up from 296th in 2019), the 1,542nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,715th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 272 out of 509Before him are Carl Gustaf Mosander, Vladimir Markovnikov, Hideki Shirakawa, Alan MacDiarmid, Richard Smalley, and Kenichi Fukui. After him are Edmond H. Fischer, Fraser Stoddart, Thomas A. Steitz, Alexander Shulgin, William Henry, and Torbern Bergman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 11Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Franz Benda, and Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. After him are Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. Among people deceased in 1782, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 13Before him are Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Taksin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Anna Göldi, and Sophie of France. After him are Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Hyder Ali, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 1,542 out of 6,142Before him are Hemma (800), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Conrad Celtes (1459), Carl Schuhmann (1869), Peter Minuit (1589), and Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740). After him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Eugen Fink (1905), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Ludwig Borchardt (1863), and Max Pechstein (1881).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 49Before him are Franz Karl Achard (1753), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Hermann Kolbe (1818), John Polanyi (1929), and Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799). After him are Hartmut Michel (1948), Andreas Libavius (1555), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Carl Reichenbach (1788), and Viktor Meyer (1848).