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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay

1852 - 1903

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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1 January 1852 – 5 March 1903) was a French chemist who designed an apparatus to produce a spark using an induction coil and used it to generate the spectra of rare earth elements which he examined using spectroscopy, thus detecting the element europium in 1896, and isolated it as the oxide europia in 1901. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay has received more than 37,231 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Eugène-Anatole Demarçay is the 415th most popular chemist (up from 426th in 2019), the 3,422nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,459th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ranks 415 out of 509Before him are Gaston Tissandier, Asima Chatterjee, Morris Travers, Albert Niemann, Roderick MacKinnon, and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou. After him are Koichi Tanaka, Kathleen Lonsdale, Eric Betzig, Agnes Pockels, Anders Jahan Retzius, and Donella Meadows.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ranks 74Before him are Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Francisco Moreno, Mikoláš Aleš, Princess Marie of Battenberg, Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz. After him are János Csernoch, William Burnside, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Eilif Peterssen, and Leon Wyczółkowski. Among people deceased in 1903, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ranks 48Before him are Charles Renouvier, Augusta Holmès, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Kusumoto Ine, Ozaki Kōyō, and Karl Gegenbaur. After him are Harriet Lane, Tang Jingsong, Lina Sandell, Emily Warren Roebling, Konstantinos Paspatis, and Henri Alexis Brialmont.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ranks 3,422 out of 6,011Before him are Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Blondel de Nesle (1155), Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), Michel Garicoïts (1797), and Louis Antoine de Noailles (1651). After him are Jean Robic (1921), Louis Duchesne (1843), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), Frédéric Beigbeder (1965), Béatrice Dalle (1964), and Bernard Lacombe (1952).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay ranks 54Before him are Nicolas Lemery (1645), Georges Urbain (1872), James Smithson (1765), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Gaston Tissandier (1843), and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795). After him are Edmond Frémy (1814), Pierre Adet (1763), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Antoine Bussy (1794), and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817).