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Carl Jacob Löwig

1803 - 1890

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Carl Jacob Löwig (17 March 1803 – 27 March 1890) was a German chemist and discovered bromine independently of Antoine Jérôme Balard. He received his PhD at the University of Heidelberg for his work with Leopold Gmelin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Jacob Löwig has received more than 51,821 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl Jacob Löwig is the 456th most popular chemist (up from 485th in 2019), the 3,943rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,108th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 456 out of 509. Before him are Carl Remigius Fresenius, Julia Lermontova, Albert Kluyver, Maclyn McCarty, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, and Ludwig Mond. After him are Christian Konrad Sprengel, Robin Hill, William Hallowes Miller, Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, and Caleb Bradham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 56. Before him are Dimitrios Voulgaris, C. L. Gloger, José María Heredia y Heredia, Albert Küchler, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, and Karl Schorn. After him are Bernardo Berro, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Sarah Childress Polk, Heinrich Ewald, Miles Joseph Berkeley, and Johann Jakob Kaup. Among people deceased in 1890, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 52. Before him are Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Jacques-Louis Soret, Johann Georg Halske, Johanne Luise Heiberg, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, and Pyotr Chikhachyov. After him are Władysław Taczanowski, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Franz Delitzsch, Joseph Hergenröther, Oskar Kolberg, and George Crook.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 3,943 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl Schorn (1803), Serge Gnabry (1995), Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg (1767), Ludwig Mond (1839), Sylvester Groth (1958), and Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704). After him are Gerhard Fieseler (1896), Joachim Fuchsberger (1927), Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), and Jordanus de Nemore (null).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 80. Before him are Michael Grätzel (1944), Ferdinand Reich (1799), Hugo Schiff (1834), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), and Ludwig Mond (1839). After him are Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), Robert Havemann (1910), Adolph Strecker (1822), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Theodor Curtius (1857), and Heinrich Rose (1795).

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