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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. During his research on mineral salts he discovered bromine in 1825, as a brown gas evolving after the salt was treated with chlorine.After working at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Zurich he became the successor to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen at the University of Breslau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Jacob Löwig has received more than 50,907 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carl Jacob Löwig is the 539th most popular chemist (down from 456th in 2019), the 5,144th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,932nd in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Chemist.

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Over the past year Carl Jacob Löwig has had the most page views in the with 9,223 views, followed by German (1,293), and Portuguese (1,100). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (37.32%), Tamil (35.00%), and Arabic (34.38%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 539 out of 602. Before him are John Mayow, Wallace Smith Broecker, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Darleane C. Hoffman, and Nikodem Caro. After him are Ida Freund, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Helen Murray Free, Nikolai Menshutkin, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, and Jürgen Hennig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 73. Before him are George Borrow, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Juan Bravo Murillo, Sarah Yorke Jackson, James Challis, and Karl Schorn. After him are Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Jules d'Anethan, Jacob Abbott, Domingo Nieto, William Smith O'Brien, and Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1890, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 64. Before him are Pyotr Chikhachyov, Lydia Becker, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Oskar Kolberg, Joseph Hergenröther, and George Crook. After him are John Francis Davis, Catherine Booth, William Bell Scott, Mihkel Veske, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 5,144 out of 7,253. Before him are Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912), Julian Brandt (1996), Jörg Drehmel (1945), Wolfgang Sidka (1954), Hildegard Falck (1949), and Ralf König (1960). After him are Klaus Schütz (1926), Heiko Maas (1966), Rainer Brüderle (1945), Sandra Nasić (1976), Georg Holtzendorff (null), and Kito Lorenc (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 104. Before him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835), Eugen Baumann (1846), Hans von Pechmann (1850), and Peter Armbruster (1931). After him are Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Jürgen Hennig (1951), Max Bodenstein (1871), Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748), and Achim Müller (1938).

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