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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 123,922 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Johan Gadolin is the 124th most popular chemist (down from 105th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Finland (down from 19th in 2019) 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 509. Before him are Casimir Funk, Richard R. Ernst, William Howard Stein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Lars Onsager, and Georg Ernst Stahl. After him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Joachim Sauer, Jean-Marie Lehn, Dan Shechtman, Robert Burns Woodward, and Ernst Chain.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Johan Gadolin ranks 24 out of 642. Before him are George Gaynes (1917), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Ragnar Granit (1900), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861), and Aki Kaurismäki (1957). After him are Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mikael Agricola (1510), Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865), Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Mika Häkkinen (1968), and Linus Torvalds (1969).

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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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