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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 61,564 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Boussingault is the 333rd most popular chemist (down from 320th in 2019), the 2,411th most popular biography from France (down from 2,138th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 333 out of 509. Before him are Alexandre Brongniart, Fritz London, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Richard Abegg, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. After him are C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Paul Héroult, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, and Paul Walden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 36. Before him are Julius Plücker, David Farragut, Richard Parkes Bonington, Hippolyte Bayard, Justo José de Urquiza, and Fredrika Bremer. After him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Salvadore Cammarano, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Johann Nestroy, Armand Trousseau, and Émile Littré. Among people deceased in 1887, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 19. Before him are Doc Holliday, Friedrich von Amerling, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Hippolyte Bayard, and Paul Féval, père. After him are Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, William A. Wheeler, Agostino Depretis, Hans von Marées, and Joseph Whitworth.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 2,411 out of 6,011. Before him are Charles de Brosses (1709), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844), and Alain Bombard (1924). After him are Édouard Molinaro (1928), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), René Crevel (1900), Simone Simon (1911), Marie Trintignant (1962), and Paul Héroult (1863).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault ranks 38. Before him are François-Marie Raoult (1830), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Anselme Payen (1795), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), and Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788). After him are Paul Héroult (1863), Charles Friedel (1822), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Auguste Laurent (1807), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), and Louis Camille Maillard (1878).

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