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William Henry Perkin

1838 - 1907

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Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Henry Perkin has received more than 1,251,397 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Perkin is the 274th most popular chemist (down from 208th in 2019), the 1,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 910th in 2019) and the 35th most popular British Chemist.

Perkin is most famous for discovering the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, William Henry Perkin ranks 274 out of 602. Before him are Edwin G. Krebs, Peter D. Mitchell, Wilfrid Voynich, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Vladimir Markovnikov, and Richard Abegg. After him are Martin Rodbell, William Henry, Kamala Sohonie, Akira Yoshino, Robert H. Grubbs, and Georg Brandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, William Henry Perkin ranks 29. Before him are Konstanty Kalinowski, Marià Fortuny, 11th Dalai Lama, Edward W. Morley, Cleveland Abbe, and Vladimir Markovnikov. After him are Arthur Auwers, Fredrik Idestam, Jean-Paul Laurens, Gustav von Schmoller, Ludwig Gumplowicz, and Jules Brunet. Among people deceased in 1907, William Henry Perkin ranks 27. Before him are Marcellin Berthelot, Ilia Chavchavadze, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Léo Taxil, Franz Sacher, and Qiu Jin. After him are Henry Steel Olcott, Hermann Carl Vogel, Kuno Fischer, Carola of Vasa, Mizzi Kaspar, and Stanisław Wyspiański.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Perkin ranks 1,075 out of 8,785. Before him are Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), W. O. Bentley (1888), Bob Hope (1903), Ian Wilmut (1944), Mungo Park (1771), and Edmund Leighton (1852). After him are Jane Hawking (1944), Chris Patten (1944), Godwin, Earl of Wessex (1001), Paul Grice (1913), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971), and Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, William Henry Perkin ranks 35. Before him are Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), Thomas Graham (1805), Ida Noddack (1896), Michael Smith (1932), and Peter D. Mitchell (1920). After him are William Henry (1774), John Pople (1925), Smithson Tennant (1761), Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), and Frederick Abel (1827).

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