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Mary the Jewess

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Mary or Maria the Jewess (Latin: Maria Hebraea), also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissa) or Maria the Copt (Arabic: مارية القبطية, romanized: Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya), was an early alchemist known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300) and other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries A.D. in Alexandria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary the Jewess has received more than 429,215 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mary the Jewess is the 88th most popular inventor (up from 110th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 195th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Inventor.

Mary the Jewess is most famous for being the first person to describe the process of distillation.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Mary the Jewess ranks 88 out of 426. Before her are Sakichi Toyoda, Henry Bessemer, James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, and Alexander Stepanovich Popov. After her are William Webb Ellis, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Henri Coandă, Étienne-Jules Marey, André-Jacques Garnerin, and Daniel Swarovski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 100, Mary the Jewess ranks 19. Before her are Justin Martyr, Lydia of Thyatira, Antipas of Pergamum, Ananias of Damascus, Philemon, and Cornelius the Centurion. After her are Marcus Annius Verus, Philip the Evangelist, Agabus, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Claudia Acte, and Domitia Longina. Among people deceased in 100, Mary the Jewess ranks 34. Before her are Pontius Pilate's wife, Lydia of Thyatira, Ananias of Damascus, Silas, Valerius Maximus, and Cornelius the Centurion. After her are Philip the Evangelist, Gaius Julius Civilis, Papias of Hierapolis, Agabus, Mary of Bethany, and Claudia Acte.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mary the Jewess ranks 176 out of 642. Before her are As-Salih Ayyub (1205), Djedkare Isesi (-2500), Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853), Abbas II of Egypt (1874), Ashraf Marwan (1944), and Hetepheres I (-2700). After her are Apepi (-1600), Shepseskare (-2450), Claude François (1939), Saadia Gaon (882), Cleopatra Thea (-164), and Al-Ashraf Khalil (1260).

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Among INVENTORS In Egypt

Among inventors born in Egypt, Mary the Jewess ranks 1. After her are Roland Moreno (1945), and Mohamed M. Atalla (1924).

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