1852 - 1907
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan (28 September 1852 – 20 February 1907) was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Moissan has received more than 231,315 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Henri Moissan is the 24th most popular chemist (up from 31st in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from France (up from 421st in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Chemist.
Henri Moissan is most famous for his discovery of the element fluorine.
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Among chemists, Henri Moissan ranks 24 out of 509. Before him are Otto Hahn, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Humphry Davy, Emil Fischer, Albert Hofmann, and Edwin McMillan. After him are Alfred Werner, Eduard Buchner, Otto Wallach, Justus von Liebig, Adolf von Baeyer, and August Kekulé.
1879 - 1968
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 18
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 19
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 20
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 21
1906 - 2008
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 22
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 23
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 24
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 25
1860 - 1917
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 26
1847 - 1931
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 27
1803 - 1873
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 28
1835 - 1917
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 29
1829 - 1896
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 30
Among people born in 1852, Henri Moissan ranks 6. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Emil Fischer. After him are Gojong of Korea, Albert A. Michelson, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, William Ramsay, Francisco Tárrega, and Joseph Joffre. Among people deceased in 1907, Henri Moissan ranks 6. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg, Sully Prudhomme, Klara Hitler, and Oscar II of Sweden. After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Alfred Jarry, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Asaph Hall.
1852 - 1926
HPI: 84.19
Rank: 1
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 2
1852 - 1912
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 3
1852 - 1911
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 4
1852 - 1919
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 5
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 6
1852 - 1919
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 7
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 8
1852 - 1934
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 9
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 10
1852 - 1909
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 11
1852 - 1931
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 12
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 1
1843 - 1907
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 2
1839 - 1907
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 3
1860 - 1907
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 4
1829 - 1907
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 5
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 6
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 7
1830 - 1907
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 8
1848 - 1907
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 9
1873 - 1907
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 10
1848 - 1907
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 11
1829 - 1907
HPI: 64.25
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Henri Moissan ranks 285 out of 6,011. Before him are Germaine de Staël (1766), Pope Urban IV (1185), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Anne of Brittany (1477), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), and Claude Lorrain (1600). After him are Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Robert II of France (972), Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775), and Pope Martin IV (1220).
1766 - 1817
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 279
1185 - 1264
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 280
1767 - 1794
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 281
1477 - 1514
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 282
1755 - 1842
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 283
1600 - 1682
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 284
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 285
1661 - 1711
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 286
1781 - 1824
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 287
1750 - 1836
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 288
972 - 1031
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 289
1775 - 1844
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 290
1220 - 1285
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 291
Among chemists born in France, Henri Moissan ranks 5. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778). After him are Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), and Joseph Proust (1754).
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 1
1743 - 1794
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 2
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 3
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 4
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 6
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 7
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 8
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 10
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 11
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 12