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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 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

Among chemists, Richard Abegg ranks 330 out of 509Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Richard Abegg ranks 70Before 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 44Before 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.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 473 out of 1,454Before 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).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 15Before 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).