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Martin Heinrich Klaproth

1743 - 1817

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Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary, moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe. Klaproth was a major systematizer of analytical chemistry, and an independent inventor of gravimetric analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Heinrich Klaproth is the 154th most popular chemist (down from 98th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from Germany (down from 591st in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Chemist.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth is most famous for discovering uranium in 1789.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 154 out of 602. Before him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Sune Bergström, Casimir Funk, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Hermann Kolbe, and Harry Kroto. After him are Robert W. Holley, Paul D. Boyer, Feodor Lynen, Antoni Grabowski, Katalin Karikó, and Ei-ichi Negishi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 12. Before him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Toussaint Louverture, Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. After him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Edmund Cartwright. Among people deceased in 1817, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 9. Before him are Tadeusz Kościuszko, Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Karađorđe, and Marie Walewska. After him are Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Duke Louis of Württemberg, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Nakşidil Sultan, and Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 604 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Hans Spemann (1869), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628), and Hermann Kolbe (1818). After him are August Weismann (1834), Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837), Gustav Heinemann (1899), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Robert Ritter von Greim (1892), and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Martin Heinrich Klaproth ranks 29. Before him are Manfred Eigen (1927), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), and Hermann Kolbe (1818). After him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Georg Wittig (1897), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Robert Huber (1937), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943).

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