1742 - 1786
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German: [ˈʃeːlə], Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Wilhelm Scheele has received more than 459,937 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Carl Wilhelm Scheele is the 13th most popular chemist (up from 14th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 19th in 2019) and the most popular German Chemist.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele is most famous for discovering oxygen.
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Among chemists, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 13 out of 510. Before him are Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Amedeo Avogadro, Linus Pauling, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber. After him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Irène Joliot-Curie, Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, and Humphry Davy.
721 - 815
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 7
1779 - 1848
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 8
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 9
1901 - 1994
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 10
1859 - 1927
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 11
1868 - 1934
HPI: 80.05
Rank: 12
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 13
1852 - 1911
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 14
1897 - 1956
HPI: 79.05
Rank: 15
1800 - 1882
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 16
1853 - 1932
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 17
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 18
1778 - 1829
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1742, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius VII. After him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Yemelyan Pugachev, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Nicolas Leblanc, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Dositej Obradović, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and Ignaz von Born. Among people deceased in 1786, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 2. Before him is Frederick the Great. After him are Moses Mendelssohn, Maurice Benyovszky, Peter III of Portugal, Franz Benda, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Eva Ekeblad, John Goodricke, Antonio Sacchini, Tokugawa Ieharu, and Thomas Wright.
1742 - 1823
HPI: 81.93
Rank: 1
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 2
1742 - 1819
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 3
1742 - 1798
HPI: 75.58
Rank: 4
1742 - 1797
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 5
1742 - 1775
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 6
1742 - 1799
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 7
1742 - 1806
HPI: 69.19
Rank: 8
1742 - 1819
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 9
1742 - 1811
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 10
1742 - 1809
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 11
1742 - 1791
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 12
1712 - 1786
HPI: 82.89
Rank: 1
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 2
1729 - 1786
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 3
1746 - 1786
HPI: 72.21
Rank: 4
1717 - 1786
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 5
1709 - 1786
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 6
1705 - 1786
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 7
1724 - 1786
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 8
1764 - 1786
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 9
1730 - 1786
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 10
1737 - 1786
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 11
1711 - 1786
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 132 out of 5,289. Before him are Frederick III, German Emperor (1831), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Pope Joan (null), and Franz von Papen (1879). After him are Meister Eckhart (1260), George I of Great Britain (1660), Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845), Rudolf Höss (1901), Georg Simmel (1858), and Max Ernst (1891).
1831 - 1888
HPI: 80.11
Rank: 126
1875 - 1953
HPI: 79.97
Rank: 127
1767 - 1835
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 128
1489 - 1525
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 129
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 130
1879 - 1969
HPI: 79.88
Rank: 131
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 132
1260 - 1328
HPI: 79.81
Rank: 133
1660 - 1727
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 134
1845 - 1886
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 135
1901 - 1947
HPI: 79.63
Rank: 136
1858 - 1918
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 137
1891 - 1976
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 138
Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Scheele ranks 1. After him are Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Otto Hahn (1879), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Emil Fischer (1852), Justus von Liebig (1803), Eduard Buchner (1860), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), August Kekulé (1829), Carl Bosch (1874), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Robert Bunsen (1811).
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 1
1800 - 1882
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 2
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 3
1830 - 1895
HPI: 78.61
Rank: 4
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 5
1803 - 1873
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 6
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 7
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 8
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 10
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 11
1811 - 1899
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 12