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Théophile de Donder

1872 - 1957

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Théophile Ernest de Donder (French: [də dɔ̃dɛʁ]; 19 August 1872 – 11 May 1957) was a Belgian mathematician, physicist and chemist famous for his work (published in 1923) in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Théophile de Donder has received more than 76,436 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Théophile de Donder is the 502nd most popular physicist (up from 556th in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 490th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Théophile de Donder ranks 502 out of 851. Before him are Raoul Pictet, Walter Heitler, Ira Sprague Bowen, Walther Ritz, Richard Mollier, and Claude Pouillet. After him are Jakob II Bernoulli, Edwin H. Land, Gene Amdahl, Giovanni Poleni, Gustave Trouvé, and Andrei Linde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Théophile de Donder ranks 88. Before him are Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Juho Vennola, Dionysios Kasdaglis, George S. Robertson, Bak Jungyang, and Símun av Skarði. After him are Émile Henry, Edward Wilson, Déodat de Séverac, William Larned, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Camille Guérin. Among people deceased in 1957, Théophile de Donder ranks 114. Before him are Bertha Krupp, José Linhares, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Avetik Isahakyan, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, and Georges Hébert. After him are Alexander Vertinsky, Elia Abu Madi, Luigi Ganna, Ferenc Hirzer, Maurice Peeters, and Kiyoshi Shiga.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 440 out of 1,190. Before him are Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau (1578), Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823), Dirk Frimout (1941), Raymond Braine (1907), Theodoor Rombouts (1597), and George Minne (1866). After him are Jan Gruter (1560), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), Georges Heylens (1941), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Perkin Warbeck (1474), and Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 4. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), François Englert (1932), and Joseph Plateau (1801). After him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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