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Per Teodor Cleve

1840 - 1905

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Per Teodor Cleve (10 February 1840 – 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist and oceanographer. He is best known for his discovery of the chemical elements holmium and thulium. Born in Stockholm in 1840, Cleve earned his BSc and PhD from Uppsala University in 1863 and 1868, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Per Teodor Cleve has received more than 74,428 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Per Teodor Cleve is the 449th most popular chemist (down from 309th in 2019), the 591st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 261st in 2019) and the 19th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 449 out of 509. Before him are Johan Kjeldahl, Pierre Adet, Hans Tropsch, Frederick Abel, Hugo Schiff, and Hermann Wilhelm Vogel. After him are Carl Remigius Fresenius, Julia Lermontova, Albert Kluyver, Maclyn McCarty, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, and Ludwig Mond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 68. Before him are Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Theodor Philipsen, Émile Duclaux, Victorino de la Plaza, Simeon Solomon, and Hermann Goetz. After him are Henri Duveyrier, Nozu Michitsura, Ferdinand Sarrien, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Iakob Gogebashvili, and Angelo de Gubernatis. Among people deceased in 1905, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 65. Before him are Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Célestine Galli-Marié, Henrik Sjöberg, Francesco Tamagno, Hranush Arshagyan, and Simeon Solomon. After him are Theodoros Diligiannis, Francisco Silvela, René Goblet, Victor Borisov-Musatov, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, and Émile Oustalet.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 591 out of 1,612. Before him are Carl Johan Thyselius (1811), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Ingvar Rydell (1922), Hasse Jeppson (1925), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), and Henry Eriksson (1920). After him are Freddie Ljungberg (1977), Carl Westergren (1895), Gustav Wetterström (1911), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), Lars Hall (1927), and Mikael Håfström (1960).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 19. Before him are Georg Brandt (1694), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), and Anna Sundström (1785). After him are Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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