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Smithson Tennant

1761 - 1815

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Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) was an English chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803. He also contributed to the proof of the identity of diamond and charcoal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Smithson Tennant has received more than 84,384 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Smithson Tennant is the 299th most popular chemist (down from 247th in 2019), the 1,322nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,090th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Chemist.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Smithson Tennant ranks 299 out of 509. Before him are Martin Lowry, Aaron Klug, Ben Feringa, Dudley R. Herschbach, Edward Frankland, and M. Stanley Whittingham. After him are Antoine Baumé, Carl Reichenbach, Akira Yoshino, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Yuan T. Lee, and Edwin G. Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Smithson Tennant ranks 14. Before him are Jean-Charles Pichegru, August von Kotzebue, Philippe Buonarroti, Antoine Barnave, Sineperver Sultan, and José, Prince of Brazil. After him are Marie Harel, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Louis Pons, Marguerite Gérard, and François Hanriot. Among people deceased in 1815, Smithson Tennant ranks 13. Before him are Emma, Lady Hamilton, Jan Potocki, Carsten Niebuhr, Guillaume Brune, José María Morelos, and 9th Dalai Lama. After him are Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, James Gillray, Torii Kiyonaga, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, and Matthias Claudius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Smithson Tennant ranks 1,322 out of 7,765. Before him are Melita Norwood (1912), Jon Anderson (1944), Bill Shankly (1913), Ceawlin of Wessex (600), Jeremy Clarkson (1960), and Gideon Mantell (1790). After him are Glenn Tipton (1947), John Charles (1931), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Mary Quant (1930), Julian Glover (1935), and Seamus Heaney (1939).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Smithson Tennant ranks 43. Before him are Fraser Stoddart (1942), William Henry (1774), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Martin Lowry (1874), Edward Frankland (1825), and M. Stanley Whittingham (1941). After him are Charles Macintosh (1766), William Prout (1785), Charles Hatchett (1765), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), and Alexander William Williamson (1824).

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