CHEMIST

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

1780 - 1849

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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. He became a professor of chemistry and pharmacy for the University of Jena. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner is the 124th most popular chemist (down from 56th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 389th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Chemist.

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner was a German chemist who discovered the law of isomorphism, which is the idea that all elements that have the same atomic number but different atomic masses have the same chemical properties.

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Among chemists, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 124 out of 602. Before him are Lars Onsager, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, William Crookes, George Porter, and Richard Kuhn. After him are S. P. L. Sørensen, George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, Christian B. Anfinsen, and William E. Moerner.

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Among people born in 1780, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Carl von Clausewitz, and Pauline Bonaparte. After him are Miloš Obrenović, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Charles Nodier, Jules de Polignac, Ranjit Singh, Sacagawea, and Jernej Kopitar. Among people deceased in 1849, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 11. Before him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, and France Prešeren. After him are Charles Albert of Sardinia, René Lesson, Şehzade Abdullah, Heonjong of Joseon, Anita Garibaldi, and Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 483 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis the Child (893), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Johann Bayer (1572), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), and Franz Brentano (1838). After him are Gregor Strasser (1892), George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1582), Roland Freisler (1893), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), and Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner ranks 24. Before him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Carl Bosch (1874), Hans Fischer (1881), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), and Manfred Eigen (1927). After him are Gerhard Ertl (1936), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), and Feodor Lynen (1911).

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