CHEMIST

Constantin Fahlberg

1850 - 1910

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Constantin Fahlberg (Russian: Константин Фальберг; 22 December 1850 in Tambov – 15 August 1910 in Nassau) was a Russian chemist who discovered the sweet taste of anhydroorthosulphaminebenzoic acid in 1877–78 when analysing the chemical compounds in coal tar at Johns Hopkins University for Professor Ira Remsen (1846–1927, aged 81). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantin Fahlberg has received more than 56,645 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantin Fahlberg is the 400th most popular chemist, the 1,141st most popular biography from Russia and the 14th most popular Russian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Constantin Fahlberg ranks 400 out of 602. Before him are Ferdinand Reich, George Washington Carver, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Luke Howard, and Albert Niemann. After him are Agnes Pockels, Otto Ambros, John William Draper, Arthur Aikin, Fausto Elhuyar, and Peter J. Ratcliffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Constantin Fahlberg ranks 56. Before him are Cut Nyak Dhien, Alfred Edwards, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Enrico Cecchetti, and Aleksander Gierymski. After him are José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Alfred Pringsheim, Xaver Scharwenka, Victoria Benedictsson, Edward Bellamy, and Alphonse Pénaud. Among people deceased in 1910, Constantin Fahlberg ranks 59. Before him are Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Hormuzd Rassam, Emmanuel Frémiet, William Graham Sumner, Paolo Mantegazza, and Friedrich Kohlrausch. After him are Jorge Chávez, Luo Yixiu, Kálmán Mikszáth, Tarabai Shinde, George Turner, and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Constantin Fahlberg ranks 1,141 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Kovalyov (1897), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Olena Teliha (1906), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), and Boris Gryzlov (1950). After him are Yevfimiy Putyatin (1803), Anastasiya Vertinskaya (1944), Zacharias Werner (1768), Anatoly Tarasov (1918), Olga Bergholz (1910), and Andrei Sinyavsky (1925).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Constantin Fahlberg ranks 14. Before him are Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Julia Lermontova (1847), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838). After him are Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Nikolay Beketov (1827), Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861), Nina Andreyeva (1938), Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899), and Lev Chugaev (1873).

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