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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 26,421 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilhelm Hisinger is the 604th most popular physicist (up from 618th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 655th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 604 out of 851. Before him are Bruno Zumino, Toshiko Yuasa, Heinrich Kayser, Alfred Kleiner, Robert H. Dicke, and Henry Augustus Rowland. After him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, Marcel Brillouin, Burkhard Heim, Bert Bolin, and James Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 30. Before him are Joseph Weigl, John Leslie, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, and Jacob Perkins. After him are Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, John Farey Sr., William Townsend Aiton, Benjamin Smith Barton, Isaac D'Israeli, and Aaron Alexandre. Among people deceased in 1852, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 52. Before him are Nicolae Bălcescu, Carlos María de Alvear, Daniel Webster, James Francis Stephens, Pavel Fedotov, and Margaret Taylor. After him are José Ballivián, Rose Philippine Duchesne, Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Álvares de Azevedo, and František Čelakovský.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 635 out of 1,879. Before him are Freddie Ljungberg (1977), Harry Andersson (1913), Krister Kristensson (1942), Hillevi Rombin (1933), Torbjörn Nilsson (1954), and Rebecca Ferguson (1983). After him are Tommy Svensson (1945), Bertil Antonsson (1921), Hans Berglund (1918), Ewa Aulin (1950), Patrik Andersson (1971), and Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Wilhelm Hisinger ranks 12. Before him are Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), and Knut Ångström (1857). After him are Bert Bolin (1925), Max Tegmark (1967), Inga Fischer-Hjalmars (1918), Bengt Edlén (1906), and Sverker Johansson (1961).

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