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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 250,281 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Antoine Béchamp is the 177th most popular biologist (up from 180th in 2019), the 1,590th most popular biography from France (up from 1,665th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine Béchamp ranks 177 out of 841. Before him are John B. Calhoun, Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Tatum, and Leland H. Hartwell. After him are J. B. S. Haldane, Rudolf Vrba, George Wald, Joseph Banks, Ana Aslan, and George Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Antoine Béchamp ranks 10. Before him are Arthur de Gobineau, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Paul Reuter, and Abbas I of Egypt. After him are Carl Ludwig, 10th Dalai Lama, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Giovanni Morelli, Gustav Freytag, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay. Among people deceased in 1908, Antoine Béchamp ranks 21. Before him are Butch Cassidy, Machado de Assis, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Wilhelm Busch, Victorien Sardou, and Radoje Domanović. After him are Mikhail Chigorin, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, Enomoto Takeaki, John of Kronstadt, Dersu Uzala, and Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Béchamp ranks 1,590 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Mauroy (1928), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Anne Gonzaga (1616), Victor Cousin (1792), Jean-Marie Loret (1918), and Lolo Ferrari (1963). After him are Princess Louise of Orléans (1882), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), Michel Debré (1912), and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine Béchamp ranks 23. Before him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), and Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968). After him are Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Belon (1517), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748).

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