CHEMIST

Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville

1720 - 1805

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Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (née Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) (17 October 1720 – 23 December 1805), was a French novelist, translator and chemist who is known for her study on putrefaction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville has received more than 24,296 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville is the 455th most popular chemist, the 3,967th most popular biography from France and the 56th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 455 out of 602Before her are Donella Meadows, Johann Schweigger, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Carl Graebe, and Benjamin List. After her are Walther Kossel, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Carl Remigius Fresenius, James Crafts, Maclyn McCarty, and Friedrich Accum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 25Before her are Johann Schobert, Maximilian Hell, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Charles De Geer, Balaji Baji Rao, and Justus Möser. After her is Gilbert White. Among people deceased in 1805, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 24Before her are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, and Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage. After her are John Robison, Mihály Csokonai, Thomas Wedgwood, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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In France

Among people born in France, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 3,967 out of 6,770Before her are René Dubos (1901), Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma (1933), Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Alphonse Legros (1837), and J. R. D. Tata (1904). After her are Guy de la Chapelle (1868), Léon Delagrange (1872), Dominique Fernandez (1929), Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), and Ratramnus (800).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 56Before her are Georges Urbain (1872), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), and Antoine Bussy (1794). After her are Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), James Smithson (1765), Pierre Adet (1763), Edmond Frémy (1814), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), and Claudine Picardet (1735).