1787 - 1845
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, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 422 out of 509. Before 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.
1959 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 416
1903 - 1971
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 417
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.96
Rank: 418
1862 - 1935
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 419
1742 - 1821
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 420
1941 - 2001
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 421
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 422
1812 - 1880
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 423
1921 - 2017
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 424
1814 - 1894
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 425
1755 - 1833
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 426
1914 - 1995
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 427
1774 - 1816
HPI: 49.33
Rank: 428
Among people born in 1787, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 28. Before 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 29. Before 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.
1787 - 1848
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 22
1787 - 1853
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 23
1787 - 1847
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 24
1787 - 1851
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 25
1787 - 1862
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 26
1787 - 1872
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 27
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 28
1787 - 1863
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 29
1787 - 1851
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 30
1787 - 1862
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 31
1787 - 1851
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 32
1787 - 1855
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 33
1787 - 1878
HPI: 48.34
Rank: 34
1807 - 1845
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 23
1816 - 1845
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 24
1788 - 1845
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 25
1773 - 1845
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 26
1756 - 1845
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 27
1774 - 1845
HPI: 50.37
Rank: 28
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 29
1780 - 1845
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 30
1777 - 1845
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 31
1770 - 1845
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 32
1778 - 1845
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 33
1786 - 1845
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 34
1799 - 1845
HPI: 42.21
Rank: 35
Among people born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 501 out of 1,612. Before 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).
1933 - Present
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 495
1921 - 1997
HPI: 49.74
Rank: 496
1893 - 1946
HPI: 49.73
Rank: 497
1969 - Present
HPI: 49.72
Rank: 498
1856 - 1928
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 499
1801 - 1875
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 500
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 501
1930 - 2004
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 502
1920 - 1971
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 503
1908 - 1986
HPI: 49.59
Rank: 504
1901 - 1987
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 505
1857 - 1910
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 506
1932 - 1995
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 507
Among chemists born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 17. Before 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).
1797 - 1858
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 11
1735 - 1784
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 12
1694 - 1768
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 13
1767 - 1813
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 14
1840 - 1899
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 15
1742 - 1821
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 16
1787 - 1845
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 17
1785 - 1871
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 18
1840 - 1905
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 19
1746 - 1813
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 20