CHEMIST

Charles François de Cisternay du Fay

1698 - 1739

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Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (14 September 1698 – 16 July 1739) was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi. He discovered the existence of two types of electricity and named them "vitreous" and "resinous" (later known as positive and negative charge respectively). He noted the difference between conductors and insulators, calling them 'electrics' and 'non-electrics' for their ability to produce contact electrification. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles François de Cisternay du Fay has received more than 70,286 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles François de Cisternay du Fay is the 216th most popular chemist (up from 253rd in 2019), the 1,311th most popular biography from France (up from 1,537th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 216 out of 602. Before him are Wallace Carothers, Friedrich Sertürner, Satoshi Ōmura, Aziz Sancar, Antoni Grabowski, and Alan J. Heeger. After him are Donald J. Cram, Stephanie Kwolek, Franz Karl Achard, Derek Barton, Aaron Klug, and Rodney Robert Porter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 9. Before him are Giuseppe Guarneri, Colin Maclaurin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, and Riccardo Broschi. After him are Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jean Calas, Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Pyotr Saltykov. Among people deceased in 1739, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 4. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Saliha Sultan, and Benedetto Marcello. After him are Marie Anne de Bourbon, James Anderson, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, Cosmas Damian Asam, Dick Turpin, and George Lillo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 1,311 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767), Antoine François Prévost (1697), Bernard Buffet (1928), Petrus Ramus (1515), Capucine (1928), and Maria Schneider (1952). After him are François Pinault (1936), Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Vivant Denon (1747), and Comtessa de Dia (1175).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 24. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), and Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817). After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Bernard Courtois (1777), André-Louis Debierne (1874), and Anselme Payen (1795).

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