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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 68,158 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Théophile de Donder is the 556th most popular physicist (up from 565th in 2019), the 491st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 494th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Théophile de Donder ranks 556 out of 717Before him are Bert Bolin, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Ferdinand Monoyer, Abraham Alikhanov, David Deutsch, and Carl August von Steinheil. After him are Wander Johannes de Haas, Nicholas Kurti, Sumio Iijima, Aleksandr Stoletov, Robert Mills, and Bryce DeWitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Théophile de Donder ranks 115Before him are Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Juho Vennola, Iwan Bloch, Johan Bojer, Hafez Ibrahim, and George S. Robertson. After him are Siegmund von Hausegger, Selma Rıza, Nikolai Panin, Sergei Vasilenko, Teffi, and Carl Bonde. Among people deceased in 1957, Théophile de Donder ranks 138Before him are Arie de Jong, Luigi Ganna, Alice Milliat, Oldřich Duras, Kulyash Baiseitova, and Ferenc Hirzer. After him are Gustav Mie, Tomitaro Makino, Heinrich Campendonk, Leopold Staff, Percy Hobart, and Carl Bonde.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 491 out of 1,019Before him are Justine Henin (1982), Marie Popelin (1846), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Ludo Martens (1946), Léon Delacroix (1867), and Marouane Fellaini (1987). After him are Joël Robert (1943), Willy Vandersteen (1913), Charles de Tornaco (1927), Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Henri Jaspar (1870), and Jacques Moeschal (1900).

Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 5Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), François Englert (1932), Joseph Plateau (1801), and Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763). After him are Léon Rosenfeld (1904).