CHEMIST

Ascanio Sobrero

1812 - 1888

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Ascanio Sobrero (12 October 1812 – 26 May 1888) was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin, who had worked with the explosive material guncotton. He studied medicine in Turin and Paris and then chemistry at the University of Gießen with Justus Liebig, and earned his doctorate in 1832. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ascanio Sobrero has received more than 135,718 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ascanio Sobrero is the 172nd most popular chemist (up from 205th in 2019), the 1,099th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,236th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Chemist.

Ascanio sobrero is most famous for being the first Spanish-language novel published in the Americas. The novel is written by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, a soldier and poet who was born in Chile.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ascanio Sobrero ranks 172 out of 602. Before him are George Andrew Olah, Marcellin Berthelot, Ei-ichi Negishi, Ernst Chain, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and Alexander R. Todd. After him are Sophia Brahe, Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Giulio Natta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Ascanio Sobrero ranks 13. Before him are Louise of Orléans, Ivan Goncharov, Moses Hess, Sigismond Thalberg, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov. After him are Maria Cristina of Savoy, Alfred Krupp, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Pertevniyal Sultan, Robert Browning, and Natalia Pushkina. Among people deceased in 1888, Ascanio Sobrero ranks 13. Before him are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Louisa May Alcott, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Anton Mauve, and François Achille Bazaine. After him are Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Theodor Storm, Paul Langerhans, Johannes Zukertort, Mary Jane Kelly, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ascanio Sobrero ranks 1,099 out of 5,161. Before him are Hippolytus of Rome (170), Marcus Atilius Regulus (-299), Michele Ferrero (1925), Lucius Aelius (101), Chiara Lubich (1920), and Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691). After him are Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788), Pietro Parolin (1955), Ira von Fürstenberg (1940), Palma Vecchio (1480), Francesco Morosini (1619), and Paolo Conte (1937).

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Among CHEMISTS In Italy

Among chemists born in Italy, Ascanio Sobrero ranks 3. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), and Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826). After him are Giulio Natta (1903), Édouard Herzen (1877), and Agnes Pockels (1862).

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