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Johan August Arfwedson

1792 - 1841

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Johan August Arfwedson (12 January 1792 – 28 October 1841) was a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan August Arfwedson has received more than 88,444 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Johan August Arfwedson is the 237th most popular chemist (down from 207th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 165th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Johan August Arfwedson was a Swedish explorer who was most famous for the discovery of the Arfwedson Glacier in Greenland.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johan August Arfwedson ranks 237 out of 602. Before him are Leo Baekeland, Luis Federico Leloir, Charles J. Pedersen, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Roger D. Kornberg, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. After him are Henri Victor Regnault, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Mária Telkes, William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, and Thomas Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Johan August Arfwedson ranks 17. Before him are Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William, Duke of Nassau, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, James Mayer de Rothschild, Victor Cousin, and Johann Peter Eckermann. After him are Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Joseph Mohr, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Matteo Carcassi, Carlos Antonio López, and Francisco Morazán. Among people deceased in 1841, Johan August Arfwedson ranks 10. Before him are Mikhail Lermontov, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and Friedrich Sertürner. After him are Minh Mạng, Ferdinando Carulli, Félix Savart, Tokugawa Ienari, Friedrich Parrot, and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Johan August Arfwedson ranks 182 out of 1,879. Before him are Per Albin Hansson (1885), Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), Carl Bildt (1949), Karin Månsdotter (1550), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), and PewDiePie (1989). After him are Erik Acharius (1757), Tage Erlander (1901), Lars Lagerbäck (1948), Gunilla Bielke (1568), Hans Blix (1928), and Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Johan August Arfwedson ranks 10. Before him are Arne Tiselius (1902), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), and Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745). After him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), and Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787).

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