CHEMIST

Nils Gabriel Sefström

1787 - 1845

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Nils Gabriel Sefström (2 June 1787 – 30 November 1845) was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium. Vanadium was first discovered by the Spanish-Mexican mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río in 1801. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Gabriel Sefström has received more than 31,417 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nils Gabriel Sefström is the 414th most popular chemist (up from 422nd in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 500th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 414 out of 602. Before him are David Warren, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, John Walker, Franz von Soxhlet, Nicolas Lemery, and Lina Stern. After him are Hans Tropsch, Maud Menten, John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 33. Before him are Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Alexander Alyabyev, and Ninomiya Sontoku. After him are Michele Carafa, Ramón Freire, Sven Nilsson, José María Bocanegra, Joaquín Mosquera, and Manuel Dorrego. Among people deceased in 1845, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 28. Before him are Christian Frederik Hansen, Heinrich von Bellegarde, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Henrik Steffens, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, and Gregor MacGregor. After him are Wazir Akbar Khan, Antoine Risso, Elizabeth Fry, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Johnny Appleseed, and Matvei Gedenshtrom.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 466 out of 1,879. Before him are Sven-Bertil Taube (1934), Jarl Kulle (1927), Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Richard Bergh (1858), William Chambers (1723), and Sven Davidson (1928). After him are Tor Aulin (1866), Eric Ericson (1918), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883), Ingvar Wixell (1931), and Bertil Nordahl (1917).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 16. Before him are Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767). After him are Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Anna Sundström (1785), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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