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Christian Friedrich Schönbein

1799 - 1868

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Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE (18 October 1799 – 29 August 1868) was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Friedrich Schönbein has received more than 113,672 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Christian Friedrich Schönbein is the 271st most popular chemist (down from 260th in 2019), the 1,437th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,418th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 271 out of 602. Before him are Martin Karplus, Locusta, Joachim Sauer, Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, and Wilfrid Voynich. After him are Vladimir Markovnikov, Richard Abegg, William Henry Perkin, Martin Rodbell, William Henry, and Kamala Sohonie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 13. Before him are Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. After him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Vincenz Priessnitz, and Countess of Ségur. Among people deceased in 1868, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 19. Before him are Adalbert Stifter, Franz Berwald, James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, and James Brooke. After him are Tewodros II, François-Édouard Picot, Bhanubhakta Acharya, Carlo Matteucci, Rasoherina, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 1,437 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777), Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751), and Gondioc (450). After him are Anton Dostler (1891), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825), Hugo Riemann (1849), Erich Naumann (1905), and Georg Baselitz (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 49. Before him are Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), and Joachim Sauer (1949). After him are Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), and Clemens Winkler (1838).

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