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Jean-Antoine Chaptal

1756 - 1832

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Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup (5 June 1756 – 29 July 1832) was a French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist. His multifaceted career unfolded during one of the most brilliant periods in French science. In chemistry it was the time of Antoine Lavoisier, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Louis Guyton de Morveau, Antoine-François Fourcroy and Joseph Gay-Lussac. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Antoine Chaptal has received more than 80,080 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jean-Antoine Chaptal is the 379th most popular chemist (down from 375th in 2019), the 3,041st most popular biography from France (down from 2,904th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 379 out of 509Before him are Friedrich Stromeyer, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Franz von Soxhlet, Thomas Andrews, and Alexander William Williamson. After him are Peter Waage, John William Draper, Jan Czochralski, Nicolas Lemery, Lina Stern, and Felix Hoppe-Seyler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 26Before him are Paul Wranitzky, Federico Gravina, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, John Loudon McAdam, Abbé Faria, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. After him are Christian Frederik Hansen, Karl Philipp Moritz, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Trumbull, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, and Georg Friedrich von Martens. Among people deceased in 1832, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 26Before him are Jean Maximilien Lamarque, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Demetrios Ypsilantis, Ghazi Muhammad, and Aleksander Orłowski. After him are Kaʻahumanu, John Leslie, Franz Xaver von Zach, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Casimir Pierre Périer, and Karl Rudolphi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 3,041 out of 6,011Before him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Robbie Ross (1869), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Julius Leber (1891), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), and Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754). After him are Princess Joséphine of Lorraine (1753), Eugène Isabey (1803), Catulle Mendès (1841), Salomon de Brosse (1571), Bernard Werber (1961), and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 47Before him are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Auguste Laurent (1807), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), and André-Louis Debierne (1874). After him are Nicolas Lemery (1645), Georges Urbain (1872), James Smithson (1765), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Gaston Tissandier (1843), and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795).