1800 - 1884
Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Dumas has received more than 136,225 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Dumas is the 143rd most popular chemist (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,036th most popular biography from France (up from 1,075th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Chemist.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas was a French chemist who first isolated the element bromine in 1825.
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Among chemists, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 143 out of 509. Before him are Paul Berg, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Robert W. Holley, Fritz Strassmann, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Bengt I. Samuelsson. After him are Robert F. Furchgott, Kurt Wüthrich, Sune Bergström, Jerome Karle, Hennig Brand, and Ignacy Mościcki.
1926 - 2023
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 137
1776 - 1810
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 138
1922 - 1993
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 139
1902 - 1980
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 140
1850 - 1936
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 141
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 142
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 143
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 144
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 145
1916 - 2004
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 146
1918 - 2013
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 147
1630 - 1710
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 148
1867 - 1946
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 149
Among people born in 1800, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 10. Before him are Charles Goodyear, Millard Fillmore, Henry Fox Talbot, France Prešeren, James Clark Ross, and John Edward Gray. After him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, John Brown, Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lars Levi Laestadius, and Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg. Among people deceased in 1884, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 10. Before him are Marie Taglioni, Paul Morphy, Elias Lönnrot, Johann Gustav Droysen, Marie Bashkirtseff, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. After him are Alfred Brehm, Allan Pinkerton, Hans Makart, Karl Richard Lepsius, Hermann Kolbe, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz.
1800 - 1860
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 4
1800 - 1874
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 5
1800 - 1877
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 6
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 7
1800 - 1862
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 8
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1800 - 1831
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 11
1800 - 1877
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 13
1800 - 1842
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 14
1800 - 1861
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 15
1800 - 1852
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 16
1804 - 1884
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 4
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 5
1802 - 1884
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 6
1808 - 1884
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 7
1858 - 1884
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 8
1853 - 1884
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1829 - 1884
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 11
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 12
1840 - 1884
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 13
1810 - 1884
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 14
1818 - 1884
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 15
1817 - 1884
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 16
Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 1,036 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Louis Barrault (1910), Anne de Montmorency (1493), Lili Boulanger (1893), Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Émile Gallé (1846), and Robert de Sorbon (1201). After him are Eugène Scribe (1791), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Séraphine Louis (1864), Christian Clavier (1952), Louise Bourgeois (1911), and Jean Vigo (1905).
1910 - 1994
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 1,030
1493 - 1567
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 1,031
1893 - 1918
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 1,032
1630 - 1676
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 1,033
1846 - 1904
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 1,034
1201 - 1274
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 1,035
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 1,036
1791 - 1861
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 1,037
1830 - 1904
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 1,038
1864 - 1942
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 1,039
1952 - Present
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 1,040
1911 - 2010
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 1,041
1905 - 1934
HPI: 61.87
Rank: 1,042
Among chemists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 19. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850). After him are Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698).
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 13
1758 - 1836
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 14
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 15
1763 - 1829
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 16
1827 - 1907
HPI: 62.42
Rank: 17
1850 - 1936
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 18
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 19
1742 - 1806
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 20
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 21
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 22
1777 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 23
1817 - 1884
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 24
1698 - 1739
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 25