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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 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 37,936 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Laurent is the 352nd most popular chemist (down from 330th in 2019), the 2,667th most popular biography from France (down from 2,265th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Chemist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Auguste Laurent ranks 352 out of 509. Before him are Henry Taube, Jacques Bergier, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Lars Fredrik Nilson, and Roy J. Plunkett. After him are Tim Hunt, Albert Ghiorso, Roger Y. Tsien, Thomas C. Südhof, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, and Louis Le Chatelier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Auguste Laurent ranks 23. Before him are Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Joseph E. Johnston, Aloysius Bertrand, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Thiệu Trị, and Amir Kabir. After him are Napoleon Orda, Robert Blum, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Hermann Burmeister, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Friedrich Theodor Vischer. Among people deceased in 1853, Auguste Laurent ranks 23. Before him are Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Andries Pretorius, Frédéric Ozanam, and George Onslow. After him are Anastasio Bustamante, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Lionel Kieseritzky, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Louis Visconti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 2,667 out of 6,011. Before him are Daniel Buren (1938), André Marty (1886), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Philippe de La Hire (1640), Olivier Assayas (1955), and Pierre Rode (1774). After him are Abraham Bosse (1604), Émile Baudot (1845), François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Jules Jamin (1818), and N'Golo Kanté (1991).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 42. Before him are Alexandre Brongniart (1770), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Paul Héroult (1863), Charles Friedel (1822), and Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737). After him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), and Nicolas Lemery (1645).

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