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Leopold Gmelin

1788 - 1853

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Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold Gmelin has received more than 76,349 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Leopold Gmelin is the 303rd most popular chemist (down from 292nd in 2019), the 1,738th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Leopold Gmelin ranks 303 out of 602. Before him are Smithson Tennant, Michael Levitt, Antoine Baumé, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Tapputi, and Martin Lowry. After him are Kristian Birkeland, Rudolph A. Marcus, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Yuan T. Lee, and Thomas Cech.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Leopold Gmelin ranks 20. Before him are Antoine César Becquerel, Robert Peel, Ranavalona I, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Johan Christian Dahl, and Mikhail Lazarev. After him are David d'Angers, Friedrich Rückert, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Carl Reichenbach, and Pierre Joseph Pelletier. Among people deceased in 1853, Leopold Gmelin ranks 15. Before him are Bezmiâlem Sultan, Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Christian Leopold von Buch, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Matteo Carcassi, and Tokugawa Ieyoshi. After him are Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Juan Donoso Cortés, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Andries Pretorius, and Frédéric Ozanam.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leopold Gmelin ranks 1,738 out of 7,253. Before him are Richenza of Northeim (1087), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Ludwig Börne (1786), Margaret Sambiria (1230), Andreas Osiander (1498), and Marco Reus (1989). After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Christian Oliver (1972), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), and Klaus Fischer (1949).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Leopold Gmelin ranks 53. Before him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), and John Polanyi (1929). After him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), Clemens Winkler (1838), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), and Carl Reichenbach (1788).

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