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Sophia Brahe

1556 - 1643

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Sophia (or Sophie) Thott Lange (née Brahe; 24 August 1559 or 22 September 1556 – 1643), known by her maiden name, was a Danish noblewoman and horticulturalist with knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, and medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophia Brahe has received more than 106,074 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Sophia Brahe is the 173rd most popular chemist (down from 168th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Denmark and the 3rd most popular Danish Chemist.

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  • 62.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sophia Brahe ranks 173 out of 602. Before her are Marcellin Berthelot, Ei-ichi Negishi, Ernst Chain, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Alexander R. Todd, and Ascanio Sobrero. After her are Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Giulio Natta, and Robert W. Holley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Sophia Brahe ranks 3. Before her are Carlo Maderno, and Anne Hathaway. After her are Joseph Calasanz, Adriaen de Vries, Otto van Veen, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Jerzy Radziwiłł, Tōdō Takatora, Paul Bril, and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn. Among people deceased in 1643, Sophia Brahe ranks 5. Before her are Louis XIII of France, Claudio Monteverdi, Hong Taiji, and Girolamo Frescobaldi. After her are Paul Guldin, François Duquesnoy, Hendrik Brouwer, Giovanni Baglione, Benedetto Castelli, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, and Herman Wrangel.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sophia Brahe ranks 109 out of 1,032. Before her are Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Eric II of Denmark (1090), Bille August (1948), Hans Christian Gram (1853), and Brigitte Nielsen (1963). After her are Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), Boetius of Dacia (1240), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), and Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950).

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Among CHEMISTS In Denmark

Among chemists born in Denmark, Sophia Brahe ranks 3. Before her are Henrik Dam (1895), and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879). After her are S. P. L. Sørensen (1868), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Morten P. Meldal (1954), Johan Kjeldahl (1849), and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826).

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