CHEMIST

Johann Schweigger

1779 - 1857

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Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (8 April 1779 – 6 September 1857) was a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. J.S.C.Schweigger was the son of Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger, professor of theologie in Erlangen (1786 until his death in 1802). He studied philosophy in Erlangen. His PhD involved the Homeric Question revived at that time by Friedrich August Wolf. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Schweigger is the 454th most popular chemist (down from 450th in 2019), the 3,796th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,972nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Johann Schweigger ranks 454 out of 602. Before him are J. L. B. Smith, Auguste Laurent, Gaston Tissandier, John Tukey, Peter Atkins, and Benjamin List. After him are Nikolay Zinin, Peter Armbruster, Kathleen Lonsdale, Nikolay Beketov, Walter Noddack, and Prafulla Chandra Ray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Johann Schweigger ranks 26. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Archduke Anton Victor of Austria, Jean Coralli, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, Adam Müller, and Francis Scott Key. After him are Louis de Freycinet, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Filippo Paulucci, Washington Allston, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and José Bernardo de Tagle y Portocarrero, 4th Marquess of Torre Tagle. Among people deceased in 1857, Johann Schweigger ranks 49. Before him are Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, and Juan Lindo. After him are Abe Masahiro, Frederick Scott Archer, Elisha Kent Kane, Johann Georg Hiedler, Stefano Franscini, and Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Schweigger ranks 3,798 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Diem (1882), Iwan Bloch (1872), Erich Bey (1898), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), and Benjamin List (1968). After him are Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), Johann Georg Halske (1814), John II, Duke of Cleves (1458), Ralf Moeller (1959), Paul Renner (1878), and Margit Carstensen (1940).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Johann Schweigger ranks 80. Before him are Christian Gmelin (1792), Albert Niemann (1834), Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825), Michael Grätzel (1944), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), and Benjamin List (1968). After him are Peter Armbruster (1931), Walter Noddack (1893), Theodor Curtius (1857), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), and Alwin Mittasch (1869).

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