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Jeremias Benjamin Richter

1762 - 1807

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Jeremias Benjamin Richter (German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; 10 March 1762 – 4 May 1807) was a German chemist. He was born at Hirschberg in Silesia, became a mining official at Breslau in 1794, and by 1800 was appointed assessor to the department of mines and chemist to the royal porcelain factory at Berlin, where he died. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeremias Benjamin Richter is the 374th most popular chemist (up from 420th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from Poland (up from 743rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jeremias Benjamin Richter ranks 374 out of 602. Before him are Viktor Meyer, Asima Chatterjee, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Morris Travers, Friedrich Stromeyer, and Carl Djerassi. After him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Albert Ghiorso, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Jacques Bergier, and Hermann von Fehling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Jeremias Benjamin Richter ranks 19. Before him are María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, James Hoban, Anton Bernolák, Jean-Étienne Championnet, and Felice Pasquale Baciocchi. After him are Herman Willem Daendels, Giovanni Aldini, Jan Rustem, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Juan O'Donojú, and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland. Among people deceased in 1807, Jeremias Benjamin Richter ranks 18. Before him are Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Nikolai Rezanov, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Johannes Nikolaus Tetens. After him are Jean-François Rewbell, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franciszek Smuglewicz, Sophie von La Roche, and Joseph Brant.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jeremias Benjamin Richter ranks 549 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans Woellke (1911), Karol Lipiński (1790), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), and Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938). After him are Robert Remak (1815), Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Max Simon (1899), and John Albert Vasa (1612).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Jeremias Benjamin Richter ranks 17. Before him are Richard Abegg (1869), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Fritz London (1900), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), and Sendivogius (1566). After him are Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), and Heinrich Caro (1834).

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