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Richard Abegg

1869 - 1910

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Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. He was a gas balloon enthusiast, which caused his death at the age of 41 when he crashed in his balloon in Silesia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Abegg is the 228th most popular chemist (up from 273rd in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 309th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Abegg ranks 228 out of 602Before him are Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, Joachim Frank, Hartmut Michel, John Vane, and William Hyde Wollaston. After him are Ignacy Mościcki, Stanley Miller, James B. Conant, Stanislao Cannizzaro, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and John Frederic Daniell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Richard Abegg ranks 29Before him are Felix Salten, Komitas, Rudolf Otto, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Albert Roussel, and Gustav Vigeland. After him are Pyotr Krasnov, Emilio Aguinaldo, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Kasturba Gandhi, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, and Francisco Largo Caballero. Among people deceased in 1910, Richard Abegg ranks 24Before him are Léon Walras, An Jung-geun, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, Huo Yuanjia, and Carl Reinecke. After him are Jules Renard, Stanislao Cannizzaro, William Huggins, William Holman Hunt, Alexander Agassiz, and Jean Moréas.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 202 out of 1,694Before him are Ernst Kummer (1810), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), and Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756). After him are Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Hermann Balck (1893), Felix Hausdorff (1868), and Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749).

Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Richard Abegg ranks 11Before him are Friedrich Bergius (1884), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Clara Immerwahr (1870), and Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776). After him are Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Fritz London (1900), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Sendivogius (1566), and Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762).