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Wilhelm Hisinger

1766 - 1852

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Wilhelm Hisinger (23 December 1766 – 28 June 1852) was a Swedish physicist and chemist who in 1807, working in coordination with Jöns Jakob Berzelius, noted that in electrolysis any given substance always went to the same pole, and that substances attracted to the same pole had other properties in common. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Hisinger has received more than 23,775 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Hisinger is the 618th most popular physicist (down from 543rd in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 508th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 618 out of 717. Before him are Mario Livio, Harold Brown, Toshiko Yuasa, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph H. Fowler, and John C. Slater. After him are Julius Wess, William Higinbotham, John Polkinghorne, Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, and Charles Fabry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 31. Before him are John Leslie, Joseph Weigl, Samuel Frederick Gray, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Benjamin Smith Barton, and John Farey Sr.. After him are William Townsend Aiton, Alexander Wilson, and Isaac D'Israeli. Among people deceased in 1852, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 50. Before him are Margaret Taylor, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Carlos María de Alvear, Achille Richard, Daniel Webster, and Rose Philippine Duchesne. After him are José Ballivián, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, František Čelakovský, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Jacques Bernard Hombron, and Álvares de Azevedo.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 656 out of 1,612. Before him are Greta Johansson (1895), Gunnar Sköld (1894), Anders Frisk (1963), Anna Maria Lenngren (1754), Sven Jonasson (1909), and Julia Beck (1853). After him are Max Martin (1971), Maria Bonnevie (1973), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), John Mikaelsson (1913), and Anders Järryd (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 13. Before him are Gustaf Dalén (1869), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Knut Ångström (1857), Bert Bolin (1925), and Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874). After him are Max Tegmark (1967) and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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