CHEMIST

Karl Friedrich Mohr

1806 - 1879

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Karl Friedrich Mohr (November 4, 1806 – September 28, 1879) was a German chemist famous for his early statement of the principle of the conservation of energy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Friedrich Mohr has received more than 47,770 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Karl Friedrich Mohr is the 343rd most popular chemist (down from 317th in 2019), the 2,316th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,039th in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Karl Friedrich Mohr ranks 343 out of 602Before him are Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Charles Macintosh, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac. After him are Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Roger Y. Tsien, Carl Djerassi, Charles Hatchett, and Louis Camille Maillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Karl Friedrich Mohr ranks 25Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Duchenne de Boulogne, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Antoine Wiertz, John A. Roebling, and William, Duke of Brunswick. After him are Juliette Drouet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lionel Kieseritzky, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Giacomo Antonelli, and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Among people deceased in 1879, Karl Friedrich Mohr ranks 25Before him are William, Prince of Orange, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Maurycy Gottlieb, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Baldomero Espartero, and Begum Hazrat Mahal. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Karl Koch, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Ludwig Reichenbach, Jakob Dubs, and William Kingdon Clifford.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Friedrich Mohr ranks 2,316 out of 7,253Before him are Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1424), Otto Brunfels (1488), Adelbert Schulz (1903), Paul von Hase (1885), Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach (1662), and Hermann Breith (1892). After him are Erich Mühsam (1878), Winrich von Kniprode (1310), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), and Paul Lincke (1866).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Karl Friedrich Mohr ranks 58Before him are John Polanyi (1929), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), and Thomas C. Südhof (1955). After him are Carl Reichenbach (1788), Viktor Meyer (1848), Otto Schott (1851), Hermann von Fehling (1812), Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853), and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877).