CHEMIST

Kazimierz Fajans

1887 - 1975

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Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 27 May 1887 – 18 May 1975) was a Polish-American physical chemist, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kazimierz Fajans has received more than 90,764 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kazimierz Fajans is the 371st most popular chemist (down from 361st in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Poland (down from 569th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 371 out of 602. Before him are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Karl Ernst Claus, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Alexander William Williamson, Edward Calvin Kendall, and Hugo Erdmann. After him are Peter Waage, Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, Koichi Tanaka, Rashad Khalifa, and Hermann von Fehling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 111. Before him are Charles Galton Darwin, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Simon Kimbangu, Arthur Percival, and Jim Thorpe. After him are Jean Patou, Alvin Hansen, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Jean Ray, Vladimir Smirnov, and Leo Spitzer. Among people deceased in 1975, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 91. Before him are Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, K. Kamaraj, Richard Conte, Boris Blacher, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Sam Giancana. After him are Joseph Laniel, Alvin Hansen, Virginio Rosetta, Michał Sopoćko, Jan Mukařovský, and Shojiro Sugimura.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 571 out of 1,694. Before him are Hugo Erdmann (1862), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Wincenty Witos (1874), Joachim Lelewel (1786), and Stanisław Ryłko (1945). After him are Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819), Peter van Eyck (1911), Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Isaac Deutscher (1907), and Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 17. Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Richard Abegg (1869), Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), and Hugo Erdmann (1862). After him are Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), Karol Olszewski (1846), and Johannes Thiele (1865).

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