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Richard Abegg

1869 - 1910

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Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Abegg has received more than 74,642 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Richard Abegg is the 273rd most popular chemist (up from 330th in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from Poland (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Abegg ranks 273 out of 602. Before him are Joachim Sauer, Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, Wilfrid Voynich, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, and Vladimir Markovnikov. After him are William Henry Perkin, Martin Rodbell, William Henry, Kamala Sohonie, Akira Yoshino, and Robert H. Grubbs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Richard Abegg ranks 42. Before him are Henri Désiré Landru, Carl Schuhmann, Vasily Bartold, Gaetano Bresci, Mary Mallon, and Joseph Franklin Rutherford. After him are Élie Cartan, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Giulio Douhet, and Hjalmar Söderberg. Among people deceased in 1910, Richard Abegg ranks 33. Before him are Albert Anker, Carl Reinecke, Jean Moréas, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Mikhail Vrubel, and William Huggins. After him are Auguste Charlois, Alexander Agassiz, Henri-Edmond Cross, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Boutros Ghali, and Andreas Achenbach.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 309 out of 1,694. Before him are Ida Haendel (1928), Jan Zamoyski (1542), Gunther von Hagens (1945), Józef Bem (1794), Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765), and Georg Heym (1887). After him are Andreas Schlüter (1660), Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797), Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776), Bolesław V the Chaste (1226), Chaïm Perelman (1912), and Jean Epstein (1897).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 13. Before him are Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Antoni Grabowski (1857). After him are Sendivogius (1566), Fritz London (1900), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Jan Czochralski (1885), and Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762).

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