BIOLOGIST

Antoine Béchamp

1816 - 1908

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Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒak ɑ̃twan beʃɑ̃]; 16 October 1816 – 15 April 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting William Henry Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Béchamp has received more than 262,600 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Antoine Béchamp is the 244th most popular biologist (down from 176th in 2019), the 2,075th most popular biography from France (down from 1,585th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine Béchamp ranks 244 out of 1,097. Before him are Lorenz Oken, James Rothman, Willi Hennig, Rudolf Vrba, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, and William Aiton. After him are Carl Correns, Hermann Schlegel, Martin Chalfie, Johann Baptist von Spix, Henri Milne-Edwards, and Richard Henderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Antoine Béchamp ranks 15. Before him are Abbas I of Egypt, Carl Ludwig, Franz Sacher, John Frederick Kensett, 10th Dalai Lama, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay. After him are Gustav Freytag, Paul Féval, père, Giovanni Morelli, Rudolf Wolf, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, and Antoine François Marmontel. Among people deceased in 1908, Antoine Béchamp ranks 32. Before him are Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Khudiram Bose, John of Kronstadt, Dersu Uzala, Eduard Zeller, and Tomás Estrada Palma. After him are Doppo Kunikida, Qasim Amin, Sundance Kid, Joseph Freinademetz, Andrew Graham, and François Coppée.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Béchamp ranks 2,075 out of 6,770. Before him are François Étienne de Kellermann (1770), Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400), Alan Stivell (1944), Jean Calas (1698), and Prosper of Aquitaine (390). After him are Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), Elif Shafak (1971), Max Decugis (1882), Victorine Meurent (1844), Henry Darcy (1803), and John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (1582).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine Béchamp ranks 28. Before him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Armand David (1826), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Pierre Belon (1517). After him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784).

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