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Alexander William Williamson

1824 - 1904

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Alexander William Williamson FRS FRSE PCS MRIA (1 May 1824 – 6 May 1904) was an English chemist. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander William Williamson is the 445th most popular chemist (down from 368th in 2019), the 2,906th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,880th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alexander William Williamson ranks 445 out of 602. Before him are Henri Braconnot, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Michael Grätzel, Johan Kjeldahl, Carl Remigius Fresenius, and Anders Jahan Retzius. After him are James Crafts, Constantin Fahlberg, J. L. B. Smith, Auguste Laurent, Gaston Tissandier, and John Tukey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Alexander William Williamson ranks 53. Before him are Branko Radičević, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Francesc Pi i Margall, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Antonio Ghislanzoni, and Juliusz Kossak. After him are Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Alexey Bogolyubov, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Ōmura Masujirō, and Ambrose Burnside. Among people deceased in 1904, Alexander William Williamson ranks 64. Before him are Korla Awgust Kocor, Samuel Smiles, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Edwin Arnold, Émile Duclaux, and Wilhelm His Sr.. After him are Sumner Paine, Leslie Stephen, James Longstreet, Georg Sauerwein, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and Ferdinand Mannlicher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 2,907 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Barry (1795), William Robertson Smith (1846), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), Jon Finch (1942), Paul Simonon (1955), and John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845). After him are Johann von Lamont (1805), Naomie Harris (1976), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), Arnold Bax (1883), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), and John Michael Wright (1617).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Alexander William Williamson ranks 57. Before him are Morris Travers (1872), Arthur Aikin (1773), Luke Howard (1772), Henry Roscoe (1833), John William Draper (1811), and William Gregor (1761). After him are Peter Atkins (1940), John Mayow (1640), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), William Nicholson (1753), and Edward Charles Howard (1774).

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