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Auguste Laurent

1807 - 1853

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Auguste Laurent (14 November 1807 – 15 April 1853) was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas as a laboratory assistant and worked with Charles Frédéric Gerhardt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Laurent has received more than 40,818 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Auguste Laurent is the 374th most popular chemist (down from 352nd in 2019), the 2,810th most popular biography from France (down from 2,658th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Auguste Laurent ranks 374 out of 602. Before him are Alexander William Williamson, Edward Calvin Kendall, Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, and Morten P. Meldal. After him are Koichi Tanaka, Rashad Khalifa, Hermann von Fehling, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Louis Le Chatelier, and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Auguste Laurent ranks 25. Before him are Princess Cecilia of Sweden, Aloysius Bertrand, Amir Kabir, Thiệu Trị, Hermann Burmeister, and Napoleon Orda. After him are Jónas Hallgrímsson, Jane Digby, Robert Blum, Joseph Decaisne, Arnold Henry Guyot, and Adrien-François Servais. Among people deceased in 1853, Auguste Laurent ranks 25. Before him are Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Andries Pretorius, Frédéric Ozanam, Joaquin Murrieta, Anastasio Bustamante, and Lionel Kieseritzky. After him are Princess Amalia of Sweden, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Branko Radičević, Mathieu Orfila, and George Onslow.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 2,810 out of 6,770. Before him are Seán MacBride (1904), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Charles Mangin (1866), Hilaire Belloc (1870), Jules Dalou (1838), and François Hanriot (1761). After him are André Beauneveu (1330), Conon de Béthune (1150), Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1944), Claude Gillot (1673), Théophile de Viau (1590), and Pierre Magnol (1638).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 44. Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Paul Héroult (1863), and Paul Ulrich Villard (1860). After him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Nicolas Lemery (1645), and Georges Urbain (1872).

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