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Théophile de Donder

1872 - 1957

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Théophile Ernest De Donder (French: [də dɔ̃dɛʁ]; 19 August 1872 – 11 May 1957) was a Belgian mathematician, physicist and chemist famous for his work (published in 1923) in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Théophile de Donder is the 365th most popular physicist (up from 503rd in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 441st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Théophile de Donder ranks 365 out of 851. Before him are E. C. George Sudarshan, William Whewell, Heinrich Geißler, Henri Pitot, Duncan Haldane, and Gaston Planté. After him are Louis Slotin, William Sturgeon, George F. R. Ellis, Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, and Jurij Vega.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Théophile de Donder ranks 56. Before him are Adolf Schmal, Ichiyō Higuchi, Henry Tingle Wilde, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Vladimir Arsenyev, and Arthur Blake. After him are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Emily Davison, Sidónio Pais, Anton Korošec, Albert Sarraut, and Willem de Sitter. Among people deceased in 1957, Théophile de Donder ranks 68. Before him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Harald Sverdrup, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Shoghi Effendi, Johann Rattenhuber, and Joseph Augustus Zarelli. After him are Malcolm Lowry, Theodor Körner, James Brendan Connolly, Eugenio Castellotti, Jack Butler Yeats, and Soemu Toyoda.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 221 out of 1,190. Before him are Eric Gerets (1954), Roelant Savery (1576), Wilfried Martens (1936), Lutgardis (1182), Hubert Pierlot (1883), and Juan de Flandes (1450). After him are Robert Cailliau (1947), Pierre Deligne (1944), Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797), Adeliza of Louvain (1103), Jacob van Artevelde (1290), and Adrien de Gerlache (1866).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, Théophile de Donder ranks 4. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894), François Englert (1932), and Joseph Plateau (1801). After him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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