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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 of Polish-Jewish origin, 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 83,480 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Kazimierz Fajans is the 361st most popular chemist (down from 337th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from Poland (down from 465th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 361 out of 509. Before him are Roger Y. Tsien, Thomas C. Südhof, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Louis Le Chatelier, George Washington Carver, and Brunó Ferenc Straub. After him are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Kamala Sohonie, Louis Camille Maillard, Carl Djerassi, Paul Ulrich Villard, and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 115. Before him are Şükrü Saracoğlu, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Otto Schniewind, Jean Patou, Miklós Kállay, and Ricardo Wolf. After him are Alexander Vandegrift, Andrei Shkuro, Arthur Cravan, Abolqasem Lahouti, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, and Charles Galton Darwin. Among people deceased in 1975, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 92. Before him are Achille Van Acker, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Alvin Hansen, Boris Blacher, Jan Mukařovský, and Mina Witkojc. After him are William Hartnell, Sven Rydell, G. M. B. Dobson, Tim Buckley, Barbara Hepworth, and Carl Lutz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 569 out of 1,454. Before him are Michał Rola-Żymierski (1890), Paul Wegener (1874), Stanisław Szukalski (1893), Helena Modjeska (1840), Max Fleischer (1883), and Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801). After him are John Albert Vasa (1612), Szymon Winawer (1838), Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549), Eugen Goldstein (1860), Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821), and Krzysztof Wielicki (1950).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 16. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), and Richard Abegg (1869). After him are Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), Sergey Lebedev (1874), and Karol Olszewski (1846).

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