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James Smithson

1765 - 1829

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James Smithson (c. 1765 – 27 June 1829) was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which would eventually be renamed after him as "smithsonite". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Smithson has received more than 530,594 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). James Smithson is the 466th most popular chemist (down from 402nd in 2019), the 4,117th most popular biography from France (down from 3,254th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James Smithson ranks 466 out of 602. Before him are Maclyn McCarty, Friedrich Accum, Takamine Jōkichi, Zdenko Hans Skraup, Isabella Karle, and Johan Kjeldahl. After him are William Nicholson, Phoebus Levene, Gerhard Schrader, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Pierre Adet, and Peter Woulfe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, James Smithson ranks 32. Before him are Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Petrobey Mavromichalis, Daniel Steibelt, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Antonio Nariño, and Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage. After him are Sylvestre François Lacroix, Jakub Jan Ryba, James Ivory, and Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Among people deceased in 1829, James Smithson ranks 37. Before him are Matsudaira Sadanobu, Adam Müller, George Dawe, Cristóbal Mendoza, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros. After him are Cornelio Saavedra, Wojciech Bogusławski, John Mawe, Timothy Pickering, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, and Albrecht Berblinger.

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In France

Among people born in France, James Smithson ranks 4,117 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Vicat (1786), Louis Hémon (1880), Gabrielle Réjane (1856), Henri Laurent (1881), André Patry (1902), and Pierre Mac Orlan (1882). After him are Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Florence Arthaud (1957), Oscar Heisserer (1914), Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), and Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro (1963).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, James Smithson ranks 58. Before him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852). After him are Pierre Adet (1763), Edmond Frémy (1814), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Claudine Picardet (1735), Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817).

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