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Antoine Jérôme Balard

1802 - 1876

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Antoine Jérôme Balard (30 September 1802 – 30 April 1876) was a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Jérôme Balard has received more than 63,109 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Antoine Jérôme Balard is the 179th most popular chemist (down from 170th in 2019), the 1,196th most popular biography from France (up from 1,254th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Chemist.

Antoine Jérôme Balard was a French botanist who is most famous for his work on the flora of Algeria. He was born in 1806 and died in 1887.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 179 out of 509. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter, Stephanie Kwolek, Arthur Kornberg, George Porter, Georg Wittig, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. After him are Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, Joachim Frank, Ei-ichi Negishi, Walter Gilbert, and Alan J. Heeger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 12. Before him are János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Elias Lönnrot, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After him are Germain Henri Hess, Pavel Nakhimov, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Husein Gradaščević, Nikolaus Lenau, and Charlotte Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1876, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 12. Before him are Karl Ernst von Baer, Catherine Labouré, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Truganini, Marie d'Agoult, and Ildefons Cerdà. After him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Francesco Maria Piave, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Hristo Botev, František Palacký, and Ferenc Deák.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 1,196 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles, Duke of Berry (1686), Julien Green (1900), Gérard Genette (1930), Max Linder (1883), Pierre Bergé (1930), and Étienne Cabet (1788). After him are Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (1819), Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737), Sonia Rykiel (1930), and Gérard Mourou (1944).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 22. Before him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944). After him are Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), and Bernard Courtois (1777).

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