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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 79,369 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean-Antoine Chaptal is the 391st most popular chemist (down from 379th in 2019), the 3,121st most popular biography from France (down from 3,031st in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Chemist.

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Over the past year Jean-Antoine Chaptal has had the most page views in the with 20,011 views, followed by English (9,408), and Spanish (1,658). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Vietnamese (93.84%), Esperanto (76.68%), and Hungarian (68.26%)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 391 out of 602. Before him are Thomas Andrews, Allen J. Bard, Asima Chatterjee, Hugo Schiff, Mathieu Orfila, and Albert Ghiorso. After him are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Moungi Bawendi, Ferdinand Reich, George Washington Carver, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, and Prafulla Chandra Ray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 26. Before him are James Gillray, Abbé Faria, John Loudon McAdam, Paul Wranitzky, Christian Frederik Hansen, and Heinrich von Bellegarde. After him are Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Karl Philipp Moritz, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Trumbull, François Chabot, and Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros. Among people deceased in 1832, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 27. Before him are Manuel García, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Ghazi Muhammad, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, Aleksander Orłowski, and John Leslie. After him are Kaʻahumanu, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Casimir Pierre Périer, Johann Georg Wagler, Demetrios Ypsilantis, and Andrew Bell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 3,121 out of 6,770. Before him are Pascal Greggory (1954), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Henri Maspero (1883), Michel Duchaussoy (1938), Georges Lefebvre (1874), and Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770). After him are Yves Robert (1920), Jean Echenoz (1947), Libéral Bruant (1636), Jean du Vergier de Hauranne (1581), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), and Louise Weiss (1893).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Antoine Chaptal ranks 46. Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Paul Héroult (1863), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), Auguste Laurent (1807), and Louis Le Chatelier (1815). After him are Moungi Bawendi (1961), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Georges Urbain (1872), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795).

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