CHEMIST

Alexandre Brongniart

1770 - 1847

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Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 1770 – 7 October 1847) was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Brongniart has received more than 73,696 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Alexandre Brongniart is the 325th most popular chemist (up from 327th in 2019), the 2,169th most popular biography from France (up from 2,348th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alexandre Brongniart ranks 325 out of 602. Before him are Clemens Winkler, Louis E. Brus, Charles Friedel, Richard J. Roberts, Sendivogius, and Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein. After him are Frances Arnold, Victor Goldschmidt, François-Marie Raoult, Jean Stas, Eilhard Mitscherlich, and Édouard Herzen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Alexandre Brongniart ranks 28. Before him are Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Lucile Desmoulins, Sequoyah, François Étienne de Kellermann, and Jean Maximilien Lamarque. After him are Dominique Vandamme, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, and Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy. Among people deceased in 1847, Alexandre Brongniart ranks 14. Before him are Jules de Polignac, Marie Duplessis, John Franklin, Adélaïde d'Orléans, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, and Eugénie de Beauharnais. After him are Maria Schicklgruber, Friedrich von Gärtner, Thiệu Trị, Charles Hatchett, William II, Elector of Hesse, and Ioannis Kolettis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Brongniart ranks 2,169 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis I, Count of Blois (1172), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Alain Ducasse (1956), Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (1428), Yannick Noah (1960), and André Claveau (1911). After him are Leos Carax (1960), Édouard Branly (1844), Alexandre Astruc (1923), Henri Gouraud (1867), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon (1844), and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe (1747).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Alexandre Brongniart ranks 34. Before him are Bernard Courtois (1777), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Anselme Payen (1795), Antoine Baumé (1728), Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), and Charles Friedel (1822). After him are François-Marie Raoult (1830), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), and Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816).

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