CHEMIST

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

1780 - 1849

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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner has received more than 527,419 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner is the 56th most popular chemist (up from 76th in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from Germany (up from 544th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Chemist.

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner was a German chemist who discovered the law of isomorphism, which is the idea that all elements that have the same atomic number but different atomic masses have the same chemical properties.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 56 out of 602. Before him are Arthur Harden, Fritz Pregl, Melvin Calvin, Frederick Soddy, Adolf Windaus, and Victor Grignard. After him are Arne Tiselius, Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, Theodor Svedberg, Norman Haworth, and Richard Willstätter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Carl von Clausewitz, and Pauline Bonaparte. After him are Miloš Obrenović, Jules de Polignac, Charles Nodier, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Ranjit Singh, Jernej Kopitar, Sacagawea, and Mary Somerville. Among people deceased in 1849, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 11. Before him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, France Prešeren, and Sándor Petőfi. After him are Charles Albert of Sardinia, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Juliette Récamier, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, and Otto Nicolai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 389 out of 7,253. Before him are Alexandra Feodorovna (1798), Pina Bausch (1940), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Adolf Windaus (1876), and James Franck (1882). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), Leo von Caprivi (1831), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Frederica of Hanover (1917), Franz Bopp (1791), and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 13. Before him are Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Adolf Windaus (1876). After him are Otto Diels (1876), Richard Willstätter (1872), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Hermann Staudinger (1881), and Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877).

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