1801 - 1887
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, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 399 out of 509. Before 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.
1764 - 1849
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 393
1875 - 1949
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 394
1972 - 1972
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 395
1901 - 1990
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 396
1827 - 1911
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 397
1853 - 1923
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 398
1801 - 1887
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 399
1753 - 1815
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 400
1872 - 1938
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 401
1765 - 1829
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 402
1954 - Present
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 403
1762 - 1807
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 404
1847 - 1930
HPI: 50.73
Rank: 405
Among people born in 1801, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 53. Before 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 29. Before 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.
1801 - 1866
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 47
1801 - 1880
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 48
1801 - 1822
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 49
1801 - 1852
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 50
1801 - 1864
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 51
1801 - 1836
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 52
1801 - 1887
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 53
1801 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 54
1801 - 1888
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 55
1801 - 1884
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 56
1801 - 1875
HPI: 49.71
Rank: 57
1801 - 1871
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 58
1801 - 1859
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 59
1813 - 1887
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 23
1837 - 1887
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 24
1803 - 1887
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 25
1811 - 1887
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 26
1813 - 1887
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 27
1849 - 1887
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 28
1801 - 1887
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 29
1802 - 1887
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 30
1808 - 1887
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 31
1830 - 1887
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 32
1808 - 1887
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 33
1810 - 1887
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 34
1826 - 1887
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 35
Among people born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 499 out of 1,427. Before 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).
1688 - 1742
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 493
1522 - 1590
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 494
1946 - 1997
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 495
1944 - Present
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 496
1932 - 1996
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 497
1942 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 498
1801 - 1887
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 499
1924 - 2011
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 500
1976 - Present
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 501
1857 - 1923
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 502
1956 - 2021
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 503
1821 - 1909
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 504
1945 - Present
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 505
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).
1852 - 1911
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 1
1933 - 2021
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 2
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 3
1817 - 1890
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 4
1801 - 1887
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 5
1888 - 1956
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 6