CHEMIST

Andreas Sigismund Marggraf

1709 - 1782

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Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (German: [ˈmaʀkɡʀaːf]; 3 March 1709 – 7 August 1782) was a German chemist from Berlin, then capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and a pioneer of analytical chemistry. He isolated zinc in 1746 by heating calamine and carbon. Though he was not the first to do so, Marggraf is credited with carefully describing the process and establishing its basic theory. In 1747, Marggraf announced his discovery of sugar in beets and devised a method using alcohol to extract it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is the 290th most popular chemist (down from 284th in 2019), the 1,399th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,543rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 290 out of 602. Before him are Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Richard J. Roberts, Locusta, Satoshi Ōmura, and Thomas Andrews. After him are Kikunae Ikeda, Leopold Gmelin, Per Teodor Cleve, William C. Campbell, Michael Polanyi, and Bernard Courtois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 11. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Franz Benda, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, and Johann Georg Gmelin. After him are Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Franz Xaver Richter, Charles de Brosses, Étienne de Silhouette, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. Among people deceased in 1782, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 17. Before him are Anna Göldi, Sophie of France, Charles Lee, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After him are Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, Daniel Solander, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, and Princess Maria Christina of Saxony.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 1,399 out of 7,253. Before him are Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676), Christa Ludwig (1928), Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1671), Hildegard Knef (1925), Widukind of Corvey (925), and Constantin Carathéodory (1873). After him are Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), and Arthur Scherbius (1878).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ranks 49. Before him are John Polanyi (1929), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Joachim Sauer (1949), and Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802). After him are Leopold Gmelin (1788), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Andreas Libavius (1555), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), and Clemens Winkler (1838).

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