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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 468,803 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). S. P. L. Sørensen is the 282nd most popular chemist (down from 167th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 121st 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 282 out of 509. Before him are Alexander Shulgin, William Henry, Torbern Bergman, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Bernard Courtois, and Richard J. Roberts. After him are Ryōji Noyori, Hartmut Michel, Georg Brandt, Andreas Libavius, William C. Campbell, and Max Joseph von Pettenkofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 65. Before him are Henry Bergman, Ernst Linder, Alice Keppel, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ahmed Shawqi, and Noe Zhordania. After him are Mary Parker Follett, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Paul P. Harris, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Louis Couturat, and Wilhelm Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1939, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 36. Before him are Stanislav Kosior, Otto Wels, Norman Bethune, Hans Langsdorff, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Ambroise Vollard. After him are Vladimir Shukhov, Gerardo Machado, Konstantin Korovin, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Roman Dmowski, and Franz Schmidt.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 168 out of 893. Before him are Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Carl Værnet (1893), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970), Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747), Ole Nydahl (1941), and Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden (1768). After him are Valdemar Poulsen (1869), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1814), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), and John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852).

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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), Johan Kjeldahl (1849), and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826).

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