1869 - 1910
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 70,831 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Richard Abegg is the 330th most popular chemist (down from 281st in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 328th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Chemist.
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Among chemists, Richard Abegg ranks 330 out of 509. Before him are Kristian Birkeland, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Tapputi, Alexandre Brongniart, Fritz London, and Pierre Joseph Pelletier. After him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Paul Héroult, and Eilhard Mitscherlich.
1867 - 1917
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 324
1816 - 1856
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 325
1200 BC - Present
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 326
1770 - 1847
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 327
1900 - 1954
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 328
1788 - 1842
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 329
1869 - 1910
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 330
1889 - 1944
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 331
1818 - 1881
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 332
1801 - 1887
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 333
1817 - 1890
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 334
1863 - 1914
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 335
1794 - 1863
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 336
Among people born in 1869, Richard Abegg ranks 70. Before him are Julius Dorpmüller, Hans Poelzig, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Otto Nordenskjöld, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, and Harvey Cushing. After him are Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Michael von Faulhaber, Nicolae Paulescu, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Arthur Rostron, and Paul Émile Chabas. Among people deceased in 1910, Richard Abegg ranks 44. Before him are Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Konopnicka, Osman Hamdi Bey, Boutros Ghali, Auguste Charlois, and Winslow Homer. After him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Mary Baker Eddy, Wilhelm Raabe, Jorge Chávez, and Friedrich Kohlrausch.
1869 - 1945
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 64
1869 - 1936
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 65
1869 - 1953
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 66
1869 - 1928
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 67
1869 - 1948
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 68
1869 - 1939
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 69
1869 - 1910
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 70
1869 - 1891
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 71
1869 - 1952
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 72
1869 - 1931
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 73
1869 - 1932
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 74
1869 - 1940
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 75
1869 - 1937
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 76
1841 - 1910
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 38
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 39
1842 - 1910
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 40
1846 - 1910
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 41
1864 - 1910
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 42
1836 - 1910
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 43
1869 - 1910
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 44
1841 - 1910
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 45
1841 - 1910
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 46
1821 - 1910
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 47
1831 - 1910
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 48
1887 - 1910
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 49
1840 - 1910
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 50
Among people born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 473 out of 1,454. Before him are Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Gustav Freytag (1816), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Vyacheslav Kebich (1936), Werner Lorenz (1891), and Fritz London (1900). After him are Józef Haller (1873), Gustav Flatow (1875), Richard Courant (1888), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), and Gerda Steinhoff (1922).
1728 - 1804
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 467
1816 - 1895
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 468
1719 - 1772
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 469
1936 - 2020
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 470
1891 - 1974
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 471
1900 - 1954
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 472
1869 - 1910
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 473
1873 - 1960
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 474
1875 - 1945
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 475
1888 - 1972
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 476
1848 - 1916
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 477
1266 - 1339
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 478
1922 - 1946
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 479
Among chemists born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 15. Before him are Casimir Funk (1884), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Sendivogius (1566), and Fritz London (1900). After him are Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Jan Czochralski (1885), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Alfred Stock (1876), Heinrich Caro (1834), and Sergey Lebedev (1874).
1884 - 1967
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 9
1776 - 1810
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 10
1867 - 1946
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 11
1822 - 1882
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 12
1566 - 1636
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 13
1900 - 1954
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 14
1869 - 1910
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 15
1887 - 1975
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 16
1885 - 1953
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 17
1762 - 1807
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 18
1876 - 1946
HPI: 48.63
Rank: 19
1834 - 1910
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 20
1874 - 1934
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 21