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Per Teodor Cleve

1840 - 1905

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Per Teodor Cleve (10 February 1840 – 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist and oceanographer. He is best known for his discovery of the chemical elements holmium and thulium. Born in Stockholm in 1840, Cleve earned his BSc and PhD from Uppsala University in 1863 and 1868, respectively. After receiving his PhD, he became an assistant professor of chemistry at the university. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Per Teodor Cleve is the 293rd most popular chemist (down from 109th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 97th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 293 out of 602. Before him are Locusta, Satoshi Ōmura, Thomas Andrews, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Kikunae Ikeda, and Leopold Gmelin. After him are William C. Campbell, Michael Polanyi, Bernard Courtois, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 26. Before him are Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, George Smith, Hans Makart, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Giovanni Verga, and Johan Svendsen. After him are Princess Margaretha of Saxony, Edward Whymper, Manuel de Arriaga, Sisowath of Cambodia, Kuroda Kiyotaka, and William, Prince of Orange. Among people deceased in 1905, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 18. Before him are Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Albert Edelfelt, Élisée Reclus, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Walther Flemming, and Josip Juraj Strossmayer. After him are Constantin Meunier, Anton Ažbe, Alphonse Allais, Adolf Bastian, Albert von Kölliker, and Oswald Achenbach.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 210 out of 1,879. Before him are Joe Hill (1879), Michael Nyqvist (1960), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Oskar Backlund (1846), Inge the Younger (1100), and Birger, King of Sweden (1280). After him are Göran Persson (1949), Freddie Ljungberg (1977), Björn Andrésen (1955), Olof Thunberg (1925), Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), and Ulf Kristersson (1963).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Per Teodor Cleve ranks 12. Before him are Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Georg Brandt (1694), and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722). After him are Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767), Torbern Bergman (1735), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742).

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