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Arthur Aikin

1773 - 1854

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Arthur Aikin (19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society (now the Royal Society of Chemistry). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Aikin has received more than 122,260 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arthur Aikin is the 432nd most popular chemist (up from 448th in 2019), the 2,813th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,217th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 21

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  • 8.01

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  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Arthur Aikin ranks 432 out of 509Before him are Fausto Elhuyar, Henri Laborit, Edward Charles Howard, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Johann Schweigger, and Jean Stas. After him are Walter Noddack, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Luis E. Miramontes, Archibald Scott Couper, Jacques-Louis Soret, and Michael Grätzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Arthur Aikin ranks 36Before him are Henrik Steffens, Giuseppe Acerbi, Yuri Lisyansky, Jacob Aall, Joseph de Villèle, and Agostino Bassi. After him are Frédéric Cuvier, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Josef August Schultes, Mihály Csokonai, and Joseph Woelfl. Among people deceased in 1854, Arthur Aikin ranks 40Before him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Joseph de Villèle, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Józef Chłopicki, and Anton Pann. After him are Frederick Catherwood, Karl Ludwig von Haller, José Joaquín Prieto, Carl Joseph Begas, Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Aikin ranks 2,813 out of 7,765Before him are George Gissing (1857), Geoffrey Howe (1926), Hubert Parry (1848), Brian Blessed (1936), Rosamund Clifford (1150), and Peter Banks (1947). After him are Henry de Bracton (1210), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), Galyani Vadhana (1923), Stanley Baker (1928), Richard Bright (1789), and Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Aikin ranks 59Before him are Luke Howard (1772), William Nicholson (1753), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Walker (1781), Morris Travers (1872), and Edward Charles Howard (1774). After him are Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Frederick Abel (1827), Robin Hill (1899), William Hallowes Miller (1801), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), and John Mayow (1640).