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Kazimierz Fajans

1887 - 1975

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Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 27 May 1887 – 18 May 1975) was a Polish-Jewish physical chemist, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazimierz Fajans is the 328th most popular chemist (up from 371st in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Poland (up from 571st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 328 out of 602. Before him are Alexander Butlerov, Charles Friedel, Roger Y. Tsien, Torbern Bergman, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, and Louis Camille Maillard. After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Tim Hunt, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Frederick Abel, François-Marie Raoult, and Martin Lowry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 82. Before him are Tetsu Katayama, Hugo Steinhaus, Raoul Walsh, Simko Shikak, Vasily Chapayev, and Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg. After him are Hitoshi Ashida, Friedrich Zander, François Faber, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Korechika Anami, and Josef Lada. Among people deceased in 1975, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 64. Before him are Al Lettieri, Fredric March, Elijah Muhammad, Guy Mollet, Hideo Shinojima, and Eugen Fink. After him are Robert Stolz, Michel Simon, Lyubov Orlova, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Hiroshi Ōshima, and Leroy Anderson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 376 out of 1,694. Before him are Stanisław Koniecpolski (1591), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863), Krystyna Janda (1952), Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619), and Roman Ingarden (1893). After him are Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Emin Pasha (1840), Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869), Joachim Kroll (1933), and Stanisław Wyspiański (1869).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Kazimierz Fajans ranks 15. Before him are Clara Immerwahr (1870), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), and Fritz London (1900). After him are Sendivogius (1566), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), and Karol Olszewski (1846).

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