CHEMIST

Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès

1817 - 1880

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (French: [ipɔlit mɛʒ muʁjɛs]; 24 October 1817 – 31 May 1880) was a French chemist and inventor who is famous for his invention of margarine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès has received more than 125,964 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès is the 521st most popular chemist (down from 495th in 2019), the 4,738th most popular biography from France (down from 4,330th in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès ranks 521 out of 602Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Lev Chugaev, Albert Ladenburg, and Edward Goodrich Acheson. After him are Karen Wetterhahn, Alexey Favorsky, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Eugen Baumann, Robin Hill, and Hans von Pechmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès ranks 78Before him are Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Richard S. Ewell, Palladius, Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, and Thomas Thomson. After him are Manuel Robles Pezuela, Lewis Armistead, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, George Henry Lewes, Serafino Dubois, and George Holyoake. Among people deceased in 1880, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès ranks 60Before him are Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, Sara Forbes Bonetta, Sabin Berthelot, José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, and Christian August Friedrich Peters. After him are Thomas Bell, José Ignacio de Márquez, Manuel Murillo Toro, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Manolache Costache Epureanu, and José Ruperto Monagas.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès ranks 4,738 out of 6,770Before him are Louis Armand (1905), Claire Voisin (1962), Anthony Modeste (1988), Guy Drut (1950), Kazimir Hnatow (1929), and Théodore Aubanel (1829). After him are Adrienne Bolland (1895), Maurice Raynaud (1834), René Barbier (1891), Claude Allègre (1937), Lucas Digne (1993), and Natalie Dessay (1965).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès ranks 64Before him are James Smithson (1765), Pierre Adet (1763), Edmond Frémy (1814), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Claudine Picardet (1735), and Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814).