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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 211,900 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Coenraad Johannes van Houten is the 399th most popular chemist, the 499th 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 399 out of 509Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río, Leonor Michaelis, Edward Calvin Kendall, Otto Ambros, Nikolay Beketov, and Ernst Otto Beckmann. After him are William Nicholson, Georges Urbain, James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, and Joseph Achille Le Bel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 53Before him are Jan Kalivoda, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Eugène Burnouf, Pedro Santana, and Christian Dietrich Grabbe. After him are Evangelos Damaskos, Hippolyte Carnot, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Édouard Lartet, and Joseph Ludwig Raabe. Among people deceased in 1887, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 29Before him are Agostino Depretis, Hans von Marées, Joseph Whitworth, J. C. Jacobsen, Moritz Wagner, and Emma Lazarus. After him are August Friedrich Pott, Lysander Spooner, Otto Lesser, August von Werder, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, and Mohamed Sherif Pasha.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 499 out of 1,427Before him are Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Dirck Coornhert (1522), Dick van Dijk (1946), George Baker (1944), Henri Nouwen (1932), and Gijs van Lennep (1942). After him are Wiel Coerver (1924), Carice van Houten (1976), George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Peter R. de Vries (1956), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), and Herman van Veen (1945).

Among CHEMISTS In Netherlands

Among chemists born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 5Before 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).