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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 89,027 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sophia Brahe is the 168th most popular chemist (up from 221st in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 140th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sophia Brahe ranks 168 out of 509Before her are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nicolas Leblanc, Roald Hoffmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Robert Huber, and Robert S. Mulliken. After her are Katalin Karikó, Wallace Carothers, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, John Vane, Rodney Robert Porter, and Stephanie Kwolek.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Sophia Brahe ranks 110 out of 893Before her are Absalon (1128), Jens Christian Skou (1918), Bille August (1948), Niels Gade (1817), Hans Christian Gram (1853), and Harald Bohr (1887). After her are Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Allan Simonsen (1952), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858), and Boetius of Dacia (1240).

Among CHEMISTS In Denmark

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