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Nils Gabriel Sefström

1787 - 1845

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Nils Gabriel Sefström (2 June 1787 – 30 November 1845) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist. A protégé of Jöns Jakob Berzelius, he rediscovered the element vanadium in 1830 while investigating the brittleness of steel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Gabriel Sefström is the 336th most popular chemist (up from 414th in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 466th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 336 out of 602. Before him are Tim Hunt, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Frederick Abel, François-Marie Raoult, Martin Lowry, and Roderick MacKinnon. After him are Clemens Winkler, Kristian Birkeland, Erwin Chargaff, Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Pierre Joseph Pelletier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 16. Before him are Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Franz Xaver Gruber, Guillaume Henri Dufour, Edmund Kean, Otto von Kotzebue, and Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov. After him are Ludwig Uhland, Christian Ludwig Brehm, James Weddell, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, and Delphine LaLaurie. Among people deceased in 1845, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 16. Before him are Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Bernardino Rivadavia, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Isabella Colbran, Simon Mayr, and Roustam Raza. After him are Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Zaman Shah Durrani, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Jónas Hallgrímsson, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Dominique, comte de Cassini.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 275 out of 1,879. Before him are Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889), Catherine Stenbock (1535), Ove Kindvall (1943), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805), and Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911). After him are Christopher Polhem (1661), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), Lennart Carleson (1928), Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland (1827), Jan-Ove Waldner (1965), and Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Nils Gabriel Sefström ranks 16. Before him are Georg Brandt (1694), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), and Torbern Bergman (1735). After him are Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Anders Jahan Retzius (1742), Anna Sundström (1785), and Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746).

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