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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 36,285 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Urbain is the 401st most popular chemist (down from 389th in 2019), the 3,263rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,063rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Georges Urbain ranks 401 out of 509. Before him are Edward Calvin Kendall, Otto Ambros, Nikolay Beketov, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, and William Nicholson. After him are James Smithson, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Achille Le Bel, John Walker, and Phoebus Levene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Georges Urbain ranks 92. Before him are Dionysios Kasdaglis, Heinrich Vogeler, Tōson Shimazaki, Vilhelms Purvītis, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Otto Witte. After him are Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Elia Dalla Costa, Carl Gustaf Ekman, August Nilsson, Morris Travers, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Among people deceased in 1938, Georges Urbain ranks 120. Before him are Boris Pilnyak, Gösta Ekman, Joseph Strauss, Abdurauf Fitrat, Leopoldo Lugones, and Egon Friedell. After him are Florence Lawrence, Samuel Alexander, Rudolf Stammler, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Max Wien, and Axel Ljung.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 3,263 out of 6,011. Before him are Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Jacques Ozanam (1640), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Marie-Denise Villers (1774), Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778), and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716). After him are Edward Poynter (1836), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), Indila (1984), James Smithson (1765), Jean-Denis Bredin (1929), and Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 49. Before him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), and Nicolas Lemery (1645). After him are James Smithson (1765), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), and Edmond Frémy (1814).

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