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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

1722 - 1765

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Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (/kroonstet/ 23 December 1722 – 19 August 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Fredrik Cronstedt has received more than 82,439 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Axel Fredrik Cronstedt is the 264th most popular chemist (down from 254th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 201st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 264 out of 602. Before him are Emil Abderhalden, Michael Smith, Feodor Lynen, Richard Smalley, Edward W. Morley, and Kaoru Ishikawa. After him are Martin Karplus, Locusta, Joachim Sauer, Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, and Wilfrid Voynich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 7. Before him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Gregory Skovoroda, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Jazzar Pasha, and Georg Benda. After him are Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, Amursana, and Leopold Auenbrugger. Among people deceased in 1765, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 8. Before him are Louis, Dauphin of France, Mikhail Lomonosov, Muhammad bin Saud, Philip, Duke of Parma, Alexis Clairaut, and Giovanni Paolo Panini. After him are Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Mir Jafar, and Edward Young.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 203 out of 1,879. Before him are Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Ingvar Carlsson (1934), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613), Markus Persson (1979), and Birger, King of Sweden (1280). After him are Knut Wicksell (1851), Gunnar Asplund (1885), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Ann-Margret (1941), Princess Sophie of Sweden (1801), and Sigfrid Edström (1870).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 11. Before him are Theodor Svedberg (1884), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), and Johan August Arfwedson (1792). After him are Georg Brandt (1694), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742).

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