CHEMIST

Germain Henri Hess

1802 - 1850

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Germain Henri Hess (Russian: Герман Иванович Гесс, romanized: German Ivanovich Gess; 7 August 1802 – 30 November 1850) was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germain Henri Hess has received more than 96,598 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Germain Henri Hess is the 181st most popular chemist (up from 188th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Chemist.

Germain Henri Hess is most famous for his contributions to the field of chemistry, specifically the discovery of the law of conservation of mass.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Germain Henri Hess ranks 181 out of 602. Before him are John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Giulio Natta, Robert W. Holley, and Richard F. Heck. After him are John Cornforth, Stanley Miller, Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Nicolas Leblanc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Germain Henri Hess ranks 12. Before him are Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Pavel Nakhimov, Husein Gradaščević, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Harriet Martineau, and Alcide d'Orbigny. Among people deceased in 1850, Germain Henri Hess ranks 14. Before him are José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, Frédéric Bastiat, Louise of Orléans, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Lin Zexu. After him are José Gervasio Artigas, Robert Peel, Nikolaus Lenau, Jean-Pierre Boyer, Józef Bem, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Germain Henri Hess ranks 100 out of 1,015. Before him are Brother Roger (1915), Anna Göldi (1734), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), and Nicholas of Flüe (1417). After him are Louis Chevrolet (1878), Albert Anker (1831), Henri Guisan (1874), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), and Hannes Meyer (1889).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Germain Henri Hess ranks 5. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Richard R. Ernst (1933), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938). After him are Jacques Dubochet (1942), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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