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Peter Waage

1833 - 1900

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Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900) was a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Waage has received more than 51,470 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Peter Waage is the 372nd most popular chemist (up from 380th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Norway (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Norwegian Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Waage ranks 372 out of 602. Before him are Karl Ernst Claus, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Alexander William Williamson, Edward Calvin Kendall, Hugo Erdmann, and Kazimierz Fajans. After him are Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, Koichi Tanaka, Rashad Khalifa, Hermann von Fehling, and Ernst Otto Beckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Peter Waage ranks 31. Before him are Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Marko Vovchok, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Eliza Lynch, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, and Carlos Finlay. After him are Manuel González Flores, Alfred Clebsch, Félix Bracquemond, Theodor Meynert, Lazarus Fuchs, and Louis Paulsen. Among people deceased in 1900, Peter Waage ranks 45. Before him are Hermann Levi, David Edward Hughes, Bruno Abakanowicz, Sergei Korsakoff, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Wilhelm Leibl, Arthur Sullivan, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Arsenio Martínez Campos, and Félix Ravaisson-Mollien.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Peter Waage ranks 152 out of 1,039. Before him are Karin Fossum (1954), Dag Solstad (1941), Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir (1015), Egil Danielsen (1933), Belle Gunness (1859), and Haakon Magnusson of Norway (1068). After him are Eystein I of Norway (1088), Anne Holt (1958), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), Thorbjørn Jagland (1950), Inge II of Norway (1185), and Anathon Aall (1867).

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Among CHEMISTS In Norway

Among chemists born in Norway, Peter Waage ranks 4. Before him are Odd Hassel (1897), Lars Onsager (1903), and Kristian Birkeland (1867).

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