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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 107,489 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Friedrich Schönbein is the 260th most popular chemist (down from 250th in 2019), the 1,418th most popular biography from Germany and the 48th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 260 out of 509. Before him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Kikunae Ikeda, Martin Karplus, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Roger D. Kornberg. After him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Emil Abderhalden, Alexander Butlerov, Martin Rodbell, Luis Federico Leloir, and Carl Gustaf Mosander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 13. Before him are Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Karl Bryullov, William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Anna Atkins. After him are Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Countess of Ségur, and Princess Maria Anna of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1868, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 18. Before him are James Brooke, James Mayer de Rothschild, Adalbert Stifter, Okita Sōji, Franz Berwald, and Tewodros II. After him are François-Édouard Picot, Kondō Isami, Julius Plücker, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Rasoherina, and Nakano Takeko.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 1,418 out of 6,142. Before him are Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Widukind of Corvey (925), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860), and Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949). After him are Vasily Radlov (1837), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), and Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 48. Before him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Hermann Kolbe (1818), and John Polanyi (1929). After him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Hartmut Michel (1948), Andreas Libavius (1555), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Leopold Gmelin (1788), and Carl Reichenbach (1788).

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