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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 499,243 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James Smithson is the 402nd most popular chemist (up from 444th in 2019), the 3,267th most popular biography from France (up from 3,621st in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Chemist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James Smithson ranks 402 out of 509. Before him are Otto Ambros, Nikolay Beketov, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, William Nicholson, and Georges Urbain. After him are Peter J. Ratcliffe, Jeremias Benjamin Richter, Joseph Achille Le Bel, John Walker, Phoebus Levene, and Adolph Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1765, James Smithson ranks 26. Before him are Charles Hatchett, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Eli Whitney, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, and Daniel Steibelt. After him are Petrobey Mavromichalis, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Antonio Nariño, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and James Ivory. Among people deceased in 1829, James Smithson ranks 31. Before him are John Adams, Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Adam Müller, Nikolay Raevsky, Juan Ignacio Molina, and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth. After him are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Cristóbal Mendoza, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Anouvong, and George Dawe.

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In France

Among people born in France, James Smithson ranks 3,267 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Georges Urbain (1872), Edward Poynter (1836), François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis (1715), and Indila (1984). After him are Jean-Denis Bredin (1929), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Alexandre Lacazette (1991), Fréhel (1891), André Maschinot (1903), and Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, James Smithson ranks 50. Before him are Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Nicolas Lemery (1645), and Georges Urbain (1872). After him are Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Edmond Frémy (1814), and Pierre Adet (1763).

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