CHEMIST

Henry Louis Le Chatelier

1850 - 1936

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Henry Louis Le Chatelier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi lwi lə ʃɑtəlje]; 8 October 1850 – 17 September 1936) was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Louis Le Chatelier has received more than 185,586 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Henry Louis Le Chatelier is the 177th most popular chemist (down from 141st in 2019), the 1,104th most popular biography from France (down from 1,025th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Chemist.

Henry Louis Le Chatelier is most famous for his principle of Le Chatelier's Principle, which states that if a system at equilibrium is disturbed, the system will shift to counteract the disturbance.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 177 out of 602. Before him are Alexander R. Todd, Ascanio Sobrero, Sophia Brahe, Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Macleod, and Robert F. Furchgott. After him are Giulio Natta, Robert W. Holley, Richard F. Heck, Germain Henri Hess, John Cornforth, and Stanley Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 19. Before him are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Oliver Heaviside, Ignác Goldziher, Luigi Cadorna, Lafcadio Hearn, and Lluís Domènech i Montaner. After him are Besarion Jughashvili, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, César Ritz, Sami Frashëri, and Victoriano Huerta. Among people deceased in 1936, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 41. Before him are Georg Michaelis, Karl Pearson, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Georgy Chicherin, and Julius Schreck. After him are Heinrich Rickert, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Marcel Grossmann, José Sanjurjo, Robert Michels, and Wilhelm Gustloff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 1,104 out of 6,770. Before him are Lucien Tesnière (1893), Victorien Sardou (1831), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), Heinrich Kramer (1430), Theobald II of Navarre (1239), and Pepin II of Aquitaine (823). After him are Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), Flora Tristan (1803), Coluche (1944), Odile of Alsace (662), Étienne Gilson (1884), and Charles III of Navarre (1361).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 20. Before him are Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Marcellin Berthelot (1827). After him are Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906).

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