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Martin Heinrich Klaproth

1743 - 1817

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Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Heinrich Klaproth has received more than 235,766 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Martin Heinrich Klaproth is the 98th most popular chemist (down from 77th in 2019), the 591st most popular biography from Germany (down from 547th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Chemist.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth is most famous for discovering uranium in 1789.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 98 out of 602. Before him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Katalin Karikó, and Karl Ziegler. After him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Felix Hoffmann, William Giauque, Stanford Moore, Paul Berg, and Ernest Solvay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 10. Before him are Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. After him are Toussaint Louverture, Nicolai Abildgaard, Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, René Just Haüy, and William I, Elector of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1817, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 8. Before him are Tadeusz Kościuszko, Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, and Karađorđe. After him are Princess Charlotte of Wales, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Fyodor Ushakov, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, and Abraham Gottlob Werner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 591 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert the Strong (900), Widukind (755), Andreas Brehme (1960), Karl Ziegler (1898), Nina Hagen (1955), and August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767). After him are Ludwig Tieck (1773), August Bebel (1840), Heinrich Brüning (1885), Karl Gebhardt (1897), August Horch (1868), and Willy Messerschmitt (1898).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 24. Before him are Hermann Staudinger (1881), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), and Karl Ziegler (1898). After him are Felix Hoffmann (1868), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Manfred Eigen (1927), and Georg Wittig (1897).

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