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Sendivogius

1566 - 1636

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Michael Sendivogius (; Polish: Michał Sędziwój; 2 February 1566 – 1636) was a Polish alchemist, philosopher, and physician. A pioneer of chemistry, he developed ways of purifying and creating various acids, metals, and other chemicals. He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance – later called oxygen – 170 years before Scheele's discovery of the element. He correctly identified this "food of life" with the gas (also oxygen) given off by heating nitre (saltpetre). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sendivogius is the 352nd most popular chemist (down from 323rd in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Poland and the 16th most popular Polish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sendivogius ranks 352 out of 602. Before him are Carl Reichenbach, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Thomas C. Südhof, Frances Arnold, William Prout, and Louis E. Brus. After him are Alexander Shulgin, Paul Héroult, Paul Walden, Henry Eyring, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and Edward Frankland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1566, Sendivogius ranks 12. Before him are Giambattista Basile, Abraham Bloemaert, Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Jan Jesenius, and Giovanni Baglione. After him are Sigrid of Sweden, Marie of the Incarnation, Georg Flegel, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Manuel Cardoso, and Joachim Wtewael. Among people deceased in 1636, Sendivogius ranks 6. Before him are Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Date Masamune, Santorio Santorio, Mulla Sadra, and Dong Qichang. After him are Stefano Maderno, John Albert II, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Iskandar Muda, Gregorio Fernández, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sendivogius ranks 427 out of 1,694. Before him are Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Jan Jesenius (1566), Zbigniew Religa (1938), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), Hans Bellmer (1902), and Josef Hofmann (1876). After him are Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Hugo Haase (1863), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), and Johann Reinhold Forster (1729).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Sendivogius ranks 16. Before him are Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Richard Abegg (1869), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Fritz London (1900), and Kazimierz Fajans (1887). After him are Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Czochralski (1885), Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Karol Olszewski (1846), and Johannes Thiele (1865).

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