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Carl Gustaf Mosander

1797 - 1858

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Carl Gustaf Mosander (10 September 1797 – 15 October 1858) was a Swedish chemist. He discovered the rare earth elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustaf Mosander is the 298th most popular chemist (down from 292nd in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 240th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Gustaf Mosander ranks 298 out of 602. Before him are Leopold Gmelin, Per Teodor Cleve, William C. Campbell, Michael Polanyi, Bernard Courtois, and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy. After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Rasmus Bartholin, Thomas Cech, Germain Henri Hess, and Antoine Baumé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Carl Gustaf Mosander ranks 24. Before him are Alfred de Vigny, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Wilhelm Beer, and Carlo Blasis. After him are Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Manuela Sáenz, James Ferguson, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Among people deceased in 1858, Carl Gustaf Mosander ranks 20. Before him are Dred Scott, Joseph Karl Stieler, Ary Scheffer, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Nimatullah Kassab, and Princess Margaretha of Saxony. After him are Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Harriet Taylor Mill, Tokugawa Iesada, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Rachel Félix.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Gustaf Mosander ranks 220 out of 1,879. Before him are Olof Thunberg (1925), Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), Ulf Kristersson (1963), Basshunter (1984), Anna Lindh (1957), and Anders Sparrman (1748). After him are Gunnar Asplund (1885), Sven Nykvist (1922), Jo Bonnier (1930), Maud Adams (1945), PewDiePie (1989), and Catherine Vasa of Sweden (1539).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Carl Gustaf Mosander ranks 13. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Per Teodor Cleve (1840). After him are Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Torbern Bergman (1735), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), and Anna Sundström (1785).

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