CHEMIST

Fausto Elhuyar

1755 - 1833

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Fausto de Elhuyar (11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833) was a Spanish chemist, and the first to isolate tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. He was in charge, under a King of Spain commission, of organizing the School of Mines in México City and so was responsible for building the Palacio de Minería, a structure that would house the school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fausto Elhuyar has received more than 56,724 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Fausto Elhuyar is the 405th most popular chemist (up from 426th in 2019), the 1,034th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,139th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Fausto Elhuyar ranks 405 out of 602. Before him are Albert Niemann, Constantin Fahlberg, Agnes Pockels, Otto Ambros, John William Draper, and Arthur Aikin. After him are Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jennifer Doudna, David Warren, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, John Walker, and Franz von Soxhlet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Fausto Elhuyar ranks 32. Before him are Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Gaspard de Prony, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Gilbert Stuart. After him are Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Sarah Siddons, Robert Kerr, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Stanisław Staszic. Among people deceased in 1833, Fausto Elhuyar ranks 25. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, René Louiche Desfontaines, Rahel Varnhagen, Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, and Nannette Streicher. After him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Banastre Tarleton, Ivan Martinov, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Yagan.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Fausto Elhuyar ranks 1,034 out of 3,355. Before him are José Luis Perales (1945), Tomás de Zumalacárregui (1788), María Mercader (1918), Jerónimo Saavedra (1936), Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso (1838), and Migueli (1951). After him are Juan O'Donojú (1762), Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936), Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Maria de Luna (1353), José Enrique Varela (1891), and Justo Tejada (1933).

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Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Fausto Elhuyar ranks 3. Before him are Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), and Mathieu Orfila (1787). After him are Andrés Manuel del Río (1764), and Juan José Elhuyar (1754).

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