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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

1722 - 1765

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Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (/kroonstet/ 23 December 1722 – 19 August 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is considered a founder of modern mineralogy, for introducing the blowpipe as a tool for mineralogists, and for proposing that the mineral kingdom be organized on the basis of chemical analysis in his book Försök til mineralogie, eller mineral-rikets upställning (“An attempt at mineralogy or arrangement of the Mineral Kingdom”, 1758). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Axel Fredrik Cronstedt is the 285th most popular chemist (down from 264th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 285 out of 602. Before him are Thomas Graham, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, André-Louis Debierne, Ascanio Sobrero, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay. After him are Richard J. Roberts, Locusta, Satoshi Ōmura, Thomas Andrews, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, and Kikunae Ikeda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 6. Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Gregory Skovoroda, and Georg Benda. After him are Jazzar Pasha, Paisius of Hilendar, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold Auenbrugger, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. Among people deceased in 1765, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 9. Before him are Mikhail Lomonosov, Alexis Clairaut, Philip, Duke of Parma, Muhammad bin Saud, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Carl Alexander Clerck, Edward Young, and Johan Agrell.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 202 out of 1,879. Before him are Anna of Sweden (1545), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Hans Blix (1928), Hugo Alfvén (1872), Gunilla Bielke (1568), and Per Gessle (1959). After him are Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846), Joe Hill (1879), Michael Nyqvist (1960), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Oskar Backlund (1846), and Inge the Younger (1100).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt ranks 11. Before him are Arne Tiselius (1902), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), and Georg Brandt (1694). After him are Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Torbern Bergman (1735), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), and Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840).

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