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Thomas Graham

1805 - 1869

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Thomas Graham (20 December 1805 – 11 September 1869) was a Scottish chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Graham is the 279th most popular chemist (down from 243rd in 2019), the 1,155th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 958th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Thomas Graham ranks 279 out of 602Before him are Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, Akira Yoshino, Paul Ulrich Villard, and Martin Karplus. After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, André-Louis Debierne, Ascanio Sobrero, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt.

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Among people born in 1805, Thomas Graham ranks 19Before him are Marie d'Agoult, Khachatur Abovian, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Robert FitzRoy, Adalbert Stifter, and Robert Anderson. After him are George Müller, Ewelina Hańska, August Bournonville, Shirali Muslimov, 9th Dalai Lama, and Jonas Furrer. Among people deceased in 1869, Thomas Graham ranks 11Before him are Allan Kardec, Edwin Stanton, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and Hijikata Toshizō. After him are Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Graham ranks 1,155 out of 8,785Before him are Joseph Chamberlain (1836), Terence Stamp (1938), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), Emperor Norton (1818), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), and Michael Atiyah (1929). After him are Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Hans Sloane (1660), Michael Jackson (1942), James Mill (1773), Samuel Crompton (1753), and Graham Chapman (1941).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Thomas Graham ranks 37Before him are John Vane (1927), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Frederic Daniell (1790), John Pople (1925), Ida Noddack (1896), and Fraser Stoddart (1942). After him are Richard J. Roberts (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), William Henry (1774), Smithson Tennant (1761), Michael Smith (1932), and William Henry Perkin (1838).