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Johan Gottlieb Gahn

1745 - 1818

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Johan Gottlieb Gahn (19 August 1745 – 8 December 1818) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who isolated manganese in 1774. Gahn studied in Uppsala from 1762 to 1770 and became acquainted with chemists Torbern Bergman and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1770 he settled in Falun, where he introduced improvements in copper smelting, and participated in building up several factories, including those for vitriol, sulfur and red paint. He was the chemist for the Swedish Board of Mines from 1773 to 1817. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Gottlieb Gahn is the 222nd most popular chemist (down from 208th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 161st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johan Gottlieb Gahn ranks 222 out of 602. Before him are Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, Osamu Shimomura, Giulio Natta, C. N. R. Rao, and Ahmed Zewail. After him are John Newlands, Joachim Frank, Hartmut Michel, John Vane, William Hyde Wollaston, and Richard Abegg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1745, Johan Gottlieb Gahn ranks 7. Before him are Alessandro Volta, John Jay, Mikhail Kutuzov, Maria Luisa of Spain, Philippe Pinel, and Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria. After him are Johan Christian Fabricius, Carl Stamitz, Levin August von Bennigsen, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, and Fyodor Ushakov. Among people deceased in 1818, Johan Gottlieb Gahn ranks 7. Before him are Charles XIII of Sweden, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Gaspard Monge, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, and Matthew Lewis. After him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Maria Isabel of Braganza, Abigail Adams, Heinrich Füger, and Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Johan Gottlieb Gahn ranks 136 out of 1,879. Before him are Anund Jacob (1008), Canute I of Sweden (1150), Johannes Rydberg (1854), Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg (1584), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), and Princess Eugénie of Sweden (1830). After him are Zarah Leander (1907), Eric X of Sweden (1180), Lasse Hallström (1946), Lennart Johansson (1929), Birgit Nilsson (1918), and Gunnar Gren (1920).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Johan Gottlieb Gahn ranks 8. Before him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Arne Tiselius (1902), Sune Bergström (1916), and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934). After him are Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767).

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