CHEMIST

S. P. L. Sørensen

1868 - 1939

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Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen (9 January 1868 – 12 February 1939) was a Danish chemist, known for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. P. L. Sørensen has received more than 482,260 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). S. P. L. Sørensen is the 229th most popular chemist (up from 282nd in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 167th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Chemist.

Sørensen is most famous for his discovery of the Sørensen effect. This discovery states that the rate of chemical reaction is proportional to the product of the concentrations of the reactants.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 229 out of 602. Before him are Alfred G. Gilman, William Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown, Jacques Dubochet, Hartmut Michel, and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. After him are Hideki Shirakawa, Leo Baekeland, Luis Federico Leloir, Charles J. Pedersen, Robert Bruce Merrifield, and Roger D. Kornberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 49. Before him are Kantarō Suzuki, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, Felix Hausdorff, Koloman Moser, and Gustav Noske. After him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, James Brendan Connolly, Eleanor H. Porter, and Jane Avril. Among people deceased in 1939, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 31. Before him are Otto Rank, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Ernst Toller, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, and Wilhelm Groener. After him are Evald Aav, Stanislav Kosior, Gerardo Machado, Otto Wels, Roman Dmowski, and Franz Schmidt.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 130 out of 1,032. Before him are Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969), Theophil Hansen (1813), Bjarne Stroustrup (1950), Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg (1796), Morten Olsen (1949), and Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456). After him are Michael Ancher (1849), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Gudfred (800), Lars Ulrich (1963), and Charles I, Count of Flanders (1083).

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Among CHEMISTS In Denmark

Among chemists born in Denmark, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 4. Before him are Henrik Dam (1895), Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879), and Sophia Brahe (1556). After him are Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Morten P. Meldal (1954), Johan Kjeldahl (1849), and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826).

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