CHEMIST

Torbern Bergman

1735 - 1784

Photo of Torbern Bergman

Icon of person Torbern Bergman

Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) (20 March 1735 – 8 July 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torbern Bergman has received more than 87,996 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Torbern Bergman is the 314th most popular chemist (down from 278th in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 230th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Chemist.

Torbern Bergman was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who is most famous for his discovery of the element thorium in 1828.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Torbern Bergman ranks 314 out of 602. Before him are Yuan T. Lee, Thomas Cech, Alexander Shulgin, J. D. Bernal, Alice Ball, and William Prout. After him are Frederick Abel, William E. Moerner, Edward Frankland, M. Stanley Whittingham, Clemens Winkler, and Louis E. Brus.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Torbern Bergman ranks 10. Before him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Crown Prince Sado, Paul Revere, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Caspar Friedrich Wolff. After him are Ahmad al-Tijani, Ibrahim Bey, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Johann Karl August Musäus, and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1784, Torbern Bergman ranks 8. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Samuel Johnson, Phillis Wheatley, Giovanni Battista Martini, and Junípero Serra. After him are Otto Friedrich Müller, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Abraham Trembley, César-François Cassini de Thury, Anders Johan Lexell, and Allan Ramsay.

Others Born in 1735

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1784

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torbern Bergman ranks 270 out of 1,879. Before him are Håkan Nesser (1950), Björn Waldegård (1943), Johann Patkul (1660), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), Gideon Sundback (1880), and Torsten Wiesel (1924). After him are Harry Nyquist (1889), Joey Tempest (1963), Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Börje Salming (1951), and Stig Blomqvist (1946).

Others born in Sweden

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Torbern Bergman ranks 14. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Georg Brandt (1694), and Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797). After him are Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Anna Sundström (1785), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

Swedish born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous