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William Gregor

1761 - 1817

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William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was a British clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal Titanium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Gregor has received more than 102,096 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). William Gregor is the 433rd most popular chemist (down from 391st in 2019), the 2,631st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,334th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Gregor ranks 433 out of 602. Before him are Nikolay Beketov, Roy J. Plunkett, Morris Travers, Walter Noddack, Leonor Michaelis, and Georges Urbain. After him are Anders Jahan Retzius, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, and Lars Fredrik Nilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, William Gregor ranks 27. Before him are August Batsch, Pierre Gaveaux, Jean-Louis Pons, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Antonín Vranický, and Gottlob Ernst Schulze. After him are Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Blasius Merrem, Dorothea Jordan, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Henry Shrapnel, and Jacob Hübner. Among people deceased in 1817, William Gregor ranks 34. Before him are Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and Pattimura. After him are Princess Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Martín Javier Mina y Larrea, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Anna Maria Lenngren, Pál Kitaibel, and Juan Meléndez Valdés.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Gregor ranks 2,631 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Telford (1757), John Turner (1929), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), Richard Armitage (1971), Jeffrey Tate (1943), and Diana Mosley (1910). After him are Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Kelly Reilly (1977), Lesley-Anne Down (1954), Sam Allardyce (1954), George Raynor (1907), and Harry Gregson-Williams (1961).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Gregor ranks 58. Before him are John William Draper (1811), Arthur Aikin (1773), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Walker (1781), Peter Atkins (1940), and Morris Travers (1872). After him are William Nicholson (1753), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Charles Blagden (1748), David MacMillan (1968), William Hallowes Miller (1801), and Edward Charles Howard (1774).

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