CHEMIST

Charles Hatchett

1765 - 1847

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Charles Hatchett FRS FRSE (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English mineralogist and analytical chemist who discovered the element niobium, for which he proposed the name "columbium". Hatchett was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1795, and of the Royal Society in 1797. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Hatchett has received more than 57,004 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Hatchett is the 348th most popular chemist (down from 340th in 2019), the 1,693rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,726th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Charles Hatchett ranks 348 out of 602. Before him are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Carl Reichenbach, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Roger Y. Tsien, and Carl Djerassi. After him are Louis Camille Maillard, Julia Lermontova, Viktor Meyer, George Sarton, Leo Sternbach, and Roderick MacKinnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, Charles Hatchett ranks 21. Before him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Franz Xaver von Baader, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, and Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon. After him are Nguyễn Du, Christiane Vulpius, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Claire Lacombe, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, and Petrobey Mavromichalis. Among people deceased in 1847, Charles Hatchett ranks 18. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Alexandre Brongniart, Maria Schicklgruber, Friedrich von Gärtner, and Thiệu Trị. After him are William II, Elector of Hesse, Ioannis Kolettis, Josef Jungmann, Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, Alexandre Deschapelles, and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Hatchett ranks 1,693 out of 8,785. Before him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Brown (1921), Christina Rossetti (1830), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), and Robert Blake (1599). After him are John Barbirolli (1899), William Renshaw (1861), Robert Pattinson (1986), Mitch Mitchell (1947), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), and Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Charles Hatchett ranks 47. Before him are Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Fraser Stoddart (1942), and Charles Macintosh (1766). After him are Alexander William Williamson (1824), Tim Hunt (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), Luke Howard (1772), John William Draper (1811), and Arthur Aikin (1773).

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