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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 66,544 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Charles François de Cisternay du Fay is the 253rd most popular chemist, the 1,542nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,596th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 253 out of 509. Before him are John Polanyi, Michael Polanyi, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Thomas Graham, and Karl Barry Sharpless. After him are Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Kikunae Ikeda, Martin Karplus, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Roger D. Kornberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1698, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 9. Before him are Giuseppe Guarneri, Riccardo Broschi, Colin Maclaurin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Pierre Bouguer, and Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. After him are Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Erik Pontoppidan, Jean Calas, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Pyotr Saltykov, and Giacomo Ceruti. Among people deceased in 1739, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 5. Before him are Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Benedetto Marcello, Marie Anne de Bourbon, and James Anderson. After him are Saliha Sultan, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Reinhard Keiser, Cosmas Damian Asam, and Dick Turpin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 1,542 out of 6,011. Before him are Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (1572), Barbara (1930), Louise of France (1737), Xavier de Maistre (1763), Joseph Gallieni (1849), and Edmond Becquerel (1820). After him are Marcel Dassault (1892), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Michel Richard Delalande (1657), William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024), Marcabru (1200), and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ranks 25. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), and Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817). After him are Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Bernard Courtois (1777), Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), Antoine Baumé (1728), and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755).

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