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C. H. D. Buys Ballot

1817 - 1890

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Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbœyz bɑˈlɔt]; October 10, 1817 – February 3, 1890) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. H. D. Buys Ballot has received more than 63,743 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). C. H. D. Buys Ballot is the 294th most popular chemist (up from 334th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 330th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, C. H. D. Buys Ballot ranks 294 out of 602. Before him are John Polanyi, Erwin Chargaff, Ben Feringa, Alexander Butlerov, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Richard R. Schrock. After him are André-Louis Debierne, Anselme Payen, Smithson Tennant, Michael Levitt, Antoine Baumé, and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, C. H. D. Buys Ballot ranks 20. Before him are Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Theodor Storm, Austen Henry Layard, and Hermann Lotze. After him are Albert von Kölliker, Branwell Brontë, Táhirih, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Joseph Dalton Hooker, and Antonio de Torres Jurado. Among people deceased in 1890, C. H. D. Buys Ballot ranks 25. Before him are Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Jyotirao Phule, and Carl Bloch. After him are Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Alexander Georg von Bunge, Camilo Castelo Branco, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, and Christopher Latham Sholes.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, C. H. D. Buys Ballot ranks 255 out of 1,646. Before him are Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577), Saskia Sassen (1947), Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (1627), Jan Peter Balkenende (1956), Johann Weyer (1515), and Aletta Jacobs (1854). After him are Willem Blaeu (1571), Maarten Tromp (1598), Willem van Hanegem (1944), Carel Struycken (1948), Otto van Veen (1556), and Nicolaes Maes (1634).

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Among CHEMISTS In Netherlands

Among chemists born in Netherlands, C. H. D. Buys Ballot ranks 4. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), and Ben Feringa (1951). After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801), and Albert Kluyver (1888).

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