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Claudine Picardet

1735 - 1820

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Claudine Picardet (born Poullet, later Guyton de Morveau) (7 August 1735 – 4 October 1820) was a French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator. Among the French chemists of the late eighteenth century she stands out for her extensive translations of scientific literature from Swedish, English, German and Italian to French. She translated three books and thousands of pages of scientific papers, which were published as well as circulated in manuscript form. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claudine Picardet has received more than 22,865 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Claudine Picardet is the 512th most popular chemist, the 4,607th most popular biography from France and the 62nd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Claudine Picardet ranks 512 out of 602Before her are Christopher Kelk Ingold, Gustav Rose, Johannes Thiele, Nina Andreyeva, Michael Behe, and Alexander Nesmeyanov. After her are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Marc Delafontaine, Sergey Lebedev, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, and Lev Chugaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Claudine Picardet ranks 29Before her are Ivan Kulibin, Paul Kray, Ulrika Pasch, Tobias Furneaux, Domenico Vandelli, and Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After her are Jesse Ramsden, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, John Carroll, and Button Gwinnett. Among people deceased in 1820, Claudine Picardet ranks 38Before her are Ivan Gudovich, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Charles Blagden, and Stephen Decatur. After her are Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Palisot de Beauvois, Levi Lincoln Sr., William Wyatt Bibb, William Ellery, and Henry Grattan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claudine Picardet ranks 4,607 out of 6,770Before her are Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), André Chorda (1938), Johan Micoud (1973), Philippe Cattiau (1892), and Édouard Chavannes (1865). After her are Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Robert Guédiguian (1953), Robert Boutigny (1927), Arnaud Desplechin (1960), Yvette Cauchois (1908), and Gilles Kepel (1955).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Claudine Picardet ranks 62Before her are Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), James Smithson (1765), Pierre Adet (1763), Edmond Frémy (1814), and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731). After her are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817).