CHEMIST

Franz Karl Achard

1753 - 1821

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Franz Karl Achard (28 April 1753 – 20 April 1821) was a German (Prussian) chemist, geoscientist, physicist, and biologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Karl Achard has received more than 42,179 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Franz Karl Achard is the 219th most popular chemist (up from 225th in 2019), the 1,156th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,242nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Franz Karl Achard ranks 219 out of 602. Before him are Aziz Sancar, Antoni Grabowski, Alan J. Heeger, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay, Donald J. Cram, and Stephanie Kwolek. After him are Derek Barton, Aaron Klug, Rodney Robert Porter, Alfred G. Gilman, William Lipscomb, and Herbert C. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Franz Karl Achard ranks 13. Before him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans. After him are Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Samuel Crompton, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Josef Dobrovský, and Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1821, Franz Karl Achard ranks 7. Before him are Napoleon, John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, Caroline of Brunswick, John William Polidori, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans. After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe, William I, Elector of Hesse, Tudor Vladimirescu, Gregory V of Constantinople, Jean Rapp, and Johann Peter Frank.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Karl Achard ranks 1,156 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl von Bülow (1846), Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Josef Terboven (1898), Adam Elsheimer (1578), and Theodelinda (570). After him are Carl Clauberg (1898), Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (1855), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann van Beethoven (1740), Sigmund Jähn (1937), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Franz Karl Achard ranks 43. Before him are Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Hennig Brand (1630), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), and Friedrich Sertürner (1783). After him are Hartmut Michel (1948), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), and Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799).

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