CHEMIST

Coenraad Johannes van Houten

1801 - 1887

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Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is still called "Dutch process chocolate". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Coenraad Johannes van Houten has received more than 225,079 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Coenraad Johannes van Houten is the 396th most popular chemist (up from 399th in 2019), the 498th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 5th most popular Dutch Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 396 out of 602. Before him are Albert Ghiorso, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Moungi Bawendi, Ferdinand Reich, and George Washington Carver. After him are Prafulla Chandra Ray, Luke Howard, Albert Niemann, Constantin Fahlberg, Agnes Pockels, and Otto Ambros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 49. Before him are Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hippolyte Bayard, Richard Parkes Bonington, Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Charles Elliot, and Pedro Santana. After him are Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Eugène Burnouf, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Hippolyte Carnot, Jan Kalivoda, and Carl Jakob Sundevall. Among people deceased in 1887, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 26. Before him are Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, Hippolyte Bayard, Hans von Marées, William A. Wheeler, and Julius von Haast. After him are Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, and Otto Lesser.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 498 out of 1,646. Before him are Reinhart Dozy (1820), Joachim Wtewael (1566), Jelle Zijlstra (1918), Cornelis Bloemaert (1603), Nina Foch (1924), and Louis Andriessen (1939). After him are Herman van Veen (1945), Gerald Vanenburg (1964), Jan Wouters (1960), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591), and Floor Jansen (1981).

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Among CHEMISTS In Netherlands

Among chemists born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 5. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Ben Feringa (1951), and C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817). After him are Albert Kluyver (1888).

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