CHEMIST

S. P. L. Sørensen

1868 - 1939

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Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen (9 January 1868 – 12 February 1939) was a Danish chemist, known for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. S. P. L. Sørensen is the 125th most popular chemist (up from 229th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 130th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Chemist.

Sørensen is most famous for his discovery of the Sørensen effect. This discovery states that the rate of chemical reaction is proportional to the product of the concentrations of the reactants.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 125 out of 602. Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori, Edward W. Morley, William Crookes, George Porter, Richard Kuhn, and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner. After him are George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, Christian B. Anfinsen, William E. Moerner, and Jaroslav Heyrovský.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 24. Before him are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Fuad I of Egypt, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Theodore William Richards, Peter Behrens, and Paul Claudel. After him are Gertrude Bell, Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, August Horch, Felix Hoffmann, and Dietrich Eckart. Among people deceased in 1939, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 9. Before him are Alphonse Mucha, Howard Carter, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, W. B. Yeats, and Eugen Bleuler. After him are Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, Philipp Scheidemann, Werner von Fritsch, Anton Makarenko, and Edward Sapir.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 65 out of 1,032. Before him are Johannes Fibiger (1867), Lars von Trier (1956), Jens Christian Skou (1918), August Krogh (1874), Frederick IV of Denmark (1671), and Jørn Utzon (1918). After him are Inge Lehmann (1888), Tollund Man (-400), Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953), Anne of Denmark (1574), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), and Carl Bloch (1834).

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Among CHEMISTS In Denmark

Among chemists born in Denmark, S. P. L. Sørensen ranks 2. Before him are Henrik Dam (1895). After him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879), Sophia Brahe (1556), Rasmus Bartholin (1625), Morten P. Meldal (1954), Johan Kjeldahl (1849), and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen (1826).

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