CHEMIST

Ferdinand Reich

1799 - 1882

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Ferdinand Reich (19 February 1799 – 27 April 1882) was a German chemist who co-discovered indium in 1863 with Hieronymous Theodor Richter. Reich was born in Bernburg, Anhalt-Bernburg, Holy Roman Empire and died in Freiberg. He was color blind, or could only see in whites and blacks, and that is why Theodor Richter became his science partner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Reich has received more than 34,309 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ferdinand Reich is the 394th most popular chemist (up from 439th in 2019), the 3,172nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,734th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Ferdinand Reich ranks 394 out of 602. Before him are Hugo Schiff, Mathieu Orfila, Albert Ghiorso, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, and Moungi Bawendi. After him are George Washington Carver, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Luke Howard, Albert Niemann, and Constantin Fahlberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Ferdinand Reich ranks 31. Before him are Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Ludwig Rellstab, Ignaz von Döllinger, François-Auguste Biard, and Henri Druey. After him are Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, Tanaka Hisashige, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Alexander Petrov, and Nathaniel Palmer. Among people deceased in 1882, Ferdinand Reich ranks 46. Before him are Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Charles J. Guiteau, Friedrich von Lütke, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, François-Auguste Biard, and Auguste Barbier. After him are Charles Blanc, Joseph Decaisne, John William Draper, Johann Benedict Listing, Đuro Daničić, and Giovanni Lanza.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ferdinand Reich ranks 3,172 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896), Julius Röntgen (1855), Johannes Agricola (1494), Juan José Linz (1926), Erich Neumann (1905), and Louis Paulsen (1833). After him are Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479), Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (1887), Franz Nissl (1860), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), Eric Braeden (1941), and Paul Julius Möbius (1853).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ferdinand Reich ranks 67. Before him are Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), Friedrich Stromeyer (1776), and Hugo Schiff (1834). After him are Albert Niemann (1834), Otto Ambros (1901), Michael Grätzel (1944), Theodor Curtius (1857), Walter Noddack (1893), and Leonor Michaelis (1875).

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