1709 - 1782
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, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 272 out of 509. Before 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.
1797 - 1858
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 266
1838 - 1904
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 267
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 268
1927 - 2007
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 269
1943 - 2005
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 270
1918 - 1998
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 271
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 272
1920 - 2021
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 273
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 274
1940 - 2018
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 275
1925 - 2014
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 276
1774 - 1836
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 277
1735 - 1784
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 278
Among people born in 1709, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 11. Before 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 13. Before 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.
1709 - 1782
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 5
1709 - 1758
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 6
1709 - 1746
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 7
1709 - 1759
HPI: 59.82
Rank: 8
1709 - 1786
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 9
1709 - 1785
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 10
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 11
1709 - 1789
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 12
1709 - 1755
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 13
1709 - 1716
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 14
1709 - 1771
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 15
1709 - 1777
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 16
1709 - 1788
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 17
1699 - 1782
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 7
1720 - 1782
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 8
1734 - 1782
HPI: 62.37
Rank: 9
1698 - 1782
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 10
1734 - 1782
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 11
1734 - 1782
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 12
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 13
1752 - 1782
HPI: 57.73
Rank: 14
1720 - 1782
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 15
1722 - 1782
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 16
1764 - 1782
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 17
1735 - 1782
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 18
1697 - 1782
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 1,542 out of 6,142. Before 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).
800 - 876
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 1,536
1575 - 1650
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 1,537
1459 - 1508
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,538
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,539
1589 - 1638
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,540
1740 - 1821
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,541
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,542
1813 - 1890
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,543
1905 - 1975
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,544
1904 - 2007
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 1,545
1926 - 2012
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,546
1863 - 1938
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 1,547
1881 - 1955
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 1,548
Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 49. Before 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).
1753 - 1821
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 43
1783 - 1841
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 44
1810 - 1878
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 45
1818 - 1884
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 46
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 47
1799 - 1868
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 48
1709 - 1782
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 49
1948 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 50
1555 - 1616
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 51
1818 - 1901
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 52
1788 - 1853
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 53
1788 - 1869
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 54
1848 - 1897
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 55