CHEMIST

Johann Schweigger

1779 - 1857

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Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (8 April 1779 – 6 September 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. J.S.C.Schweigger was the son of Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger, professor of theologie in Erlangen (1786 until his death in 1802). He studied philosophy in Erlangen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Schweigger has received more than 30,426 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Johann Schweigger is the 450th most popular chemist (down from 430th in 2019), the 3,972nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,598th in 2019) and the 75th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johann Schweigger ranks 450 out of 602. Before him are Henri Braconnot, Antoine Bussy, Myrtle Bachelder, Jacques-Louis Soret, James B. Conant, and Donella Meadows. After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Carl Graebe, Benjamin List, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, and Walther Kossel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Johann Schweigger ranks 29. Before him are Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, Louis de Freycinet, and Augustin Saint-Hilaire. After him are Tabitha Babbitt, Washington Allston, José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle, Stephen Decatur, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and Peter Mark Roget. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Schweigger ranks 49. Before him are Abe Masahiro, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Frederick Scott Archer, Juan Lindo, and Johann Friedrich Naumann. After him are Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Stefano Franscini, Manuel José Quintana, Karol Kurpiński, Louis McLane, and Vasily Perovsky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Schweigger ranks 3,972 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Burkert (1931), Georg Buschner (1925), Hans Clarin (1929), Conny Plank (1940), Cem Özdemir (1965), and Otto Lehmann (1855). After him are Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg (1503), Emmy Hennings (1885), John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1459), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães (1858), and Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Johann Schweigger ranks 75. Before him are Otto Ambros (1901), Michael Grätzel (1944), Theodor Curtius (1857), Walter Noddack (1893), Leonor Michaelis (1875), and Heinrich Rose (1795). After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Carl Graebe (1841), Benjamin List (1968), Walther Kossel (1888), and Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818).

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