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Carl Jacob Löwig

1803 - 1890

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Carl Jacob Löwig (17 March 1803 – 27 March 1890) was a German chemist and discovered bromine independently of Antoine Jérôme Balard. He received his PhD at the University of Heidelberg for his work with Leopold Gmelin. During his research on mineral salts he discovered bromine in 1825, as a brown gas evolving after the salt was treated with chlorine. In 1853, he was the first person to synthesize Tetraethyllead (Pb(C2H5)4). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Jacob Löwig is the 558th most popular chemist (down from 539th in 2019), the 5,238th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,146th in 2019) and the 107th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 558 out of 602. Before him are Emma P. Carr, Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg, Florence B. Seibert, Jürgen Hennig, Peter Jacob Hjelm, and Edith M. Flanigen. After him are Edward Goodrich Acheson, Hans von Pechmann, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Anna J. Harrison, Wallace Smith Broecker, and Barbara Askins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 73. Before him are Juan Bravo Murillo, Sarah Yorke Jackson, James Challis, and Karl Schorn. After him are Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Jules d'Anethan, Jacob Abbott, Domingo Nieto, William Smith O'Brien, Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, and William Allen. Among people deceased in 1890, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 68. Before him are Oskar Kolberg, George Crook, Mihkel Veske, John Francis Davis, Catherine Booth, and Émile Léonard Mathieu. After him are Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Philip Francis Thomas, William Bell Scott, and Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 5,241 out of 7,253. Before him are Timur Vermes (1967), Ernst Messerschmid (1945), Erich Koschik (1913), Toni Ulmen (1906), Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862), and Stephan Weil (1958). After him are Tommy Haas (1978), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Walther von Dyck (1856), Reinhard Lauck (1946), Helmut Braselmann (1911), and Bruno Labbadia (1966).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Carl Jacob Löwig ranks 107. Before him are Gustav Rose (1798), Johannes Wislicenus (1835), Max Bodenstein (1871), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), and Jürgen Hennig (1951). After him are Hans von Pechmann (1850), Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748), Achim Müller (1938), and Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (1987).

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