CHEMIST

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault

1801 - 1887

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Boussingault has received more than 65,544 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Boussingault is the 336th most popular chemist (down from 333rd in 2019), the 2,331st most popular biography from France (up from 2,403rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 336 out of 602. Before him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Édouard Herzen, Thomas C. Südhof, Fraser Stoddart, Otto Wichterle, and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy. After him are Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Charles Macintosh, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 33. Before him are Albert Lortzing, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, David Farragut, Marie Laveau, Karl Baedeker, and Justo José de Urquiza. After him are Henri Labrouste, Johann Nestroy, Julius Plücker, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Salvadore Cammarano, and Fredrika Bremer. Among people deceased in 1887, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 16. Before him are Friedrich von Amerling, Alfred Krupp, Juan, Count of Montizón, Jules Laforgue, Doc Holliday, and Anandi Gopal Joshi. After him are Paul Féval, père, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Luigi Jacobini, Agostino Depretis, and Hippolyte Bayard.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 2,331 out of 6,770. Before him are André Téchiné (1943), Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (1278), Fulbert of Chartres (960), and Saint Martial (300). After him are Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Yasmina Reza (1959), Maïwenn (1976), Pierre Leroux (1797), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), and Sophie de Condorcet (1764).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 37. Before him are Antoine Baumé (1728), Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), Charles Friedel (1822), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), François-Marie Raoult (1830), and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755). After him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Paul Héroult (1863), and Paul Ulrich Villard (1860).

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