CHEMIST

Peter Woulfe

1727 - 1803

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Peter Woulfe (1727–1803) was an Anglo-Irish chemist and mineralogist. He first had the idea that wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered element (tungsten). In 1771, Woulfe reported the formation of a yellow dye when indigo was treated with nitric acid. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Woulfe has received more than 42,280 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Woulfe is the 472nd most popular chemist (down from 441st in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Woulfe ranks 472 out of 602. Before him are James Smithson, William Nicholson, Phoebus Levene, Gerhard Schrader, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, and Pierre Adet. After him are Robert Havemann, Archibald Scott Couper, Jan Szczepanik, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Ludwig Knorr, and Luis E. Miramontes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Peter Woulfe ranks 28. Before him are Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, James Wolfe, François-Hubert Drouais, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Ivan Shuvalov, and Johann Gottfried Zinn. After him are Andrew Planche, Ignaz Schiffermüller, William Samuel Johnson, and William Ellery. Among people deceased in 1803, Peter Woulfe ranks 34. Before him are Pōmare I, Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and George Bass. After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, François Marie Daudin, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Nikolay Lvov, and Peter Ascanius.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Peter Woulfe ranks 195 out of 549. Before him are Paul Kane (1810), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), Patrick Bergin (1951), Caitriona Balfe (1979), Steve Barron (1956), and Cecil Day-Lewis (1904). After him are Barney McKenna (1939), Seán T. O'Kelly (1882), Stephen Roche (1959), Nora Barnacle (1884), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), and Alicia Boole Stott (1860).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ireland

Among chemists born in Ireland, Peter Woulfe ranks 5. Before him are Robert Boyle (1627), William C. Campbell (1930), J. D. Bernal (1901), and Kathleen Lonsdale (1903).

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