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Peter Waage

1833 - 1900

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Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900) was a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and developed the law of mass action between 1864 and 1879. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Waage is the 366th most popular chemist (up from 372nd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Norway and the 4th most popular Norwegian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Peter Waage ranks 366 out of 602. Before him are Charles Macintosh, Karl Ernst Claus, Victor Goldschmidt, Alice Ball, Édouard Herzen, and Otto Schott. After him are Charles Hatchett, Viktor Meyer, Asima Chatterjee, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Morris Travers, and Friedrich Stromeyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Peter Waage ranks 30. Before him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Marko Vovchok, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Prince Gong, Carlos Finlay, and Eliza Lynch. After him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Alfred Clebsch, Manuel González Flores, Félix Bracquemond, Lazarus Fuchs, and Manuel Amador Guerrero. Among people deceased in 1900, Peter Waage ranks 40. Before him are Pyotr Lavrov, Vasily Kalinnikov, Birsa Munda, Henry Sidgwick, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent. After him are Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Arthur Sullivan, Hermann Levi, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Carl Lange, and Wilhelm Leibl.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Peter Waage ranks 152 out of 1,039. Before him are Edvard Moser (1962), Camilla Collett (1813), Ulvhild Håkansdotter (1090), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Ohthere of Hålogaland (900), and Hjalmar Andersen (1923). After him are Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Ivar Ballangrud (1904), Peter Tordenskjold (1690), Thorbjørn Jagland (1950), Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718), and Kjell Magne Bondevik (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In Norway

Among chemists born in Norway, Peter Waage ranks 4. Before him are Odd Hassel (1897), Lars Onsager (1903), and Kristian Birkeland (1867).

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