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William Gregor

1761 - 1817

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William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was an English 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 94,350 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William Gregor is the 391st most popular chemist (up from 395th in 2019), the 2,340th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,431st in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Gregor ranks 391 out of 509Before him are Felix Hoppe-Seyler, David Warren, Benjamin List, Leo Sternbach, John Tukey, and Peter Atkins. After him are Luke Howard, Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, Edward Calvin Kendall, Otto Ambros, and Nikolay Beketov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, William Gregor ranks 24Before him are Jean-Louis Pons, Marguerite Gérard, François Hanriot, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Antonín Vranický. After him are Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Pierre Gaveaux, Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, and John Moore. Among people deceased in 1817, William Gregor ranks 31Before him are Ibrahim Bey, Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau, Andrea Appiani, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Policarpa Salavarrieta, and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. After him are Jean-Sifrein Maury, 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 2,340 out of 7,765Before him are Roger Fry (1866), Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Richard Armitage (1971), Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1870), Francis Crozier (1796), and Peter Atkins (1940). After him are Tony Cragg (1949), Arthur Holmes (1890), Snowy White (1948), Ian Hill (1952), Gordon Jackson (1923), and Jeremy Thorpe (1929).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Gregor ranks 52Before him are Charles Hatchett (1765), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Alexander William Williamson (1824), John William Draper (1811), and Peter Atkins (1940). After him are Luke Howard (1772), William Nicholson (1753), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), John Walker (1781), Morris Travers (1872), and Edward Charles Howard (1774).