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Christian Friedrich Schönbein

1799 - 1868

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Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE (18 October 1799 – 29 August 1868) was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. He also created the concept of geochemistry in 1838. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Friedrich Schönbein is the 299th most popular chemist (down from 271st in 2019), the 1,498th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,437th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 299 out of 602. Before him are Per Teodor Cleve, William C. Campbell, Michael Polanyi, Bernard Courtois, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, and Carl Gustaf Mosander. After him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Rasmus Bartholin, Thomas Cech, Germain Henri Hess, Antoine Baumé, and Alexandre Brongniart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 15. Before him are Fromental Halévy, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Karl Bryullov, Anna Atkins, and Rodolphe Töpffer. After him are Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, and Almeida Garrett. Among people deceased in 1868, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 19. Before him are Okita Sōji, Adalbert Stifter, François-Édouard Picot, Mihailo Obrenović, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and James Brooke. After him are James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, Rasoherina, Julius Plücker, Ferenc Gyulay, and George Arnott Walker-Arnott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 1,498 out of 7,253. Before him are Mike Nichols (1931), André Previn (1929), Anna Leopoldovna (1718), Ernst Lindemann (1894), Philipp Bouhler (1899), and Carl Ludwig (1816). After him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis (1860), Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (1401), Walter Dornberger (1895), Thomas Tuchel (1973), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784), and Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Christian Friedrich Schönbein ranks 51. Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Joachim Sauer (1949), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), and Leopold Gmelin (1788). After him are Andreas Libavius (1555), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806), Clemens Winkler (1838), Max Joseph von Pettenkofer (1818), and Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795).

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