CHEMIST

Johan Gadolin

1760 - 1852

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Johan Gadolin (5 June 1760 – 15 August 1852) was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a "new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element. He is also considered the founder of Finnish chemistry research, as the second holder of the Chair of Chemistry at the Royal Academy of Turku (or Åbo Kungliga Akademi). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan Gadolin has received more than 131,858 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Johan Gadolin is the 124th most popular chemist, the 24th most popular biography from Finland and the 2nd most popular Finnish Chemist.

Johan Gadolin is most famous for his discovery of the element yttrium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johan Gadolin ranks 124 out of 602. Before him are Gerhard Ertl, Ernst Otto Fischer, Manfred Eigen, Robert Burns Woodward, Georg Wittig, and Avram Hershko. After him are Clara Immerwahr, Dan Shechtman, Jean-Marie Lehn, Ignacy Mościcki, Raymond Davis Jr., and Wendell Meredith Stanley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Johan Gadolin ranks 10. Before him are Luigi Cherubini, Camille Desmoulins, Jiaqing Emperor, Alexandre de Beauharnais, François-Noël Babeuf, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. After him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jean-François Le Sueur, Akbar II, and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth. Among people deceased in 1852, Johan Gadolin ranks 9. Before him are Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. After him are Karl Bryullov, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Vasily Zhukovsky, Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Ján Kollár, and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Johan Gadolin ranks 24 out of 751. Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Risto Ryti (1889), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), and Arto Paasilinna (1942). After him are Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Ragnar Granit (1900), Linus Torvalds (1969), Kyösti Kallio (1873), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), and George Gaynes (1917).

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Among CHEMISTS In Finland

Among chemists born in Finland, Johan Gadolin ranks 2. Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895).

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