CHEMIST

Georges Urbain

1872 - 1938

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Georges Urbain (12 April 1872 – 5 November 1938) was a French chemist, a professor of the Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and director of the Institute of Chemistry in Paris. Much of his work focused on the rare earths, isolating and separating elements such as europium and gadolinium, and studying their spectra, their magnetic properties and their atomic masses. He discovered the element lutetium (atomic number 71). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Urbain has received more than 39,165 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Georges Urbain is the 432nd most popular chemist (down from 401st in 2019), the 3,677th most popular biography from France (down from 3,250th in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Georges Urbain ranks 432 out of 602. Before him are Theodor Curtius, Nikolay Beketov, Roy J. Plunkett, Morris Travers, Walter Noddack, and Leonor Michaelis. After him are William Gregor, Anders Jahan Retzius, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, and Nikolay Zinin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Georges Urbain ranks 110. Before him are Jaan Teemant, Kazimierz Bein, Carl Gustaf Ekman, Maude Adams, Morris Travers, and Vilhelms Purvītis. After him are Adolphe Grisel, Henry Bataille, Otto Witte, Teffi, Albert Tyler, and Paul Fort. Among people deceased in 1938, Georges Urbain ranks 140. Before him are Leopoldo Lugones, Alexander Svechin, Mirza Davud Huseynov, Władysław Grabski, Ernest William Brown, and Gazanfar Musabekov. After him are Kaarlo Castrén, Mikayil Mushfig, Matvei Bronstein, Agvan Dorzhiev, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, and Christian Rohlfs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 3,677 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Fleury (1640), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Charles Duclerc (1812), Eugène Belgrand (1810), René Huyghe (1906), and Félix Tisserand (1845). After him are Étienne Mattler (1905), Léon Serpollet (1858), Adolphe Grisel (1872), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), and Albert Aurier (1865).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 50. Before him are Auguste Laurent (1807), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), and Nicolas Lemery (1645). After him are Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720).

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