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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. He named it erythronium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Gabriel Sefström has received more than 29,395 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Nils Gabriel Sefström is the 422nd most popular chemist (down from 403rd in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 459th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 422 out of 509Before him are Koichi Tanaka, Kathleen Lonsdale, Eric Betzig, Agnes Pockels, Anders Jahan Retzius, and Donella Meadows. After him are Nikolay Zinin, Isabella Karle, Edmond Frémy, Fausto Elhuyar, Henri Laborit, and Edward Charles Howard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 28Before him are Pellegrino Rossi, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Alexander Alyabyev, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, and Michele Carafa. After him are Josephine Kablick, Ramón Freire, José María Bocanegra, Andrés Quintana Roo, Konstantin Batyushkov, and Joaquín Mosquera. Among people deceased in 1845, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 29Before him are Jónas Hallgrímsson, Wazir Akbar Khan, Rafael Urdaneta, Henrik Steffens, Christian Frederik Hansen, and Johnny Appleseed. After him are Elizabeth Fry, Antoine Risso, Zaman Shah Durrani, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, and Thomas Hood.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 501 out of 1,612Before him are Kerstin Ekman (1933), Bengt Danielsson (1921), Georg Åberg (1893), Tomas Brolin (1969), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801). After him are Orvar Bergmark (1930), Bengt Ekerot (1920), Lars-Erik Larsson (1908), Arne Borg (1901), Knut Ångström (1857), and Katarina Taikon (1932).

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 17Before him are Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Torbern Bergman (1735), Georg Brandt (1694), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742). After him are Anna Sundström (1785), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).