CHEMIST

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

1800 - 1884

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Jean Baptiste André Dumas (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɑ̃dʁe dyma]; 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 147,049 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Dumas is the 146th most popular chemist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 18th 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

Among chemists, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 146 out of 602. Before him are Willard Libby, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Sune Bergström, John Newlands, Christian B. Anfinsen, and James Dewar. After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský, Arthur Kornberg, Ahmed Zewail, Edmond H. Fischer, Julius Axelrod, and Yves Chauvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 9. Before him are France Prešeren, Emperor Ninkō, Millard Fillmore, Charles Goodyear, Henry Fox Talbot, and John Edward Gray. After him are Nat Turner, James Clark Ross, John Brown, Lars Levi Laestadius, Jacques Paul Migne, and Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. Among people deceased in 1884, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 9. Before him are Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, and Paul Morphy. After him are Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, Fanny Elssler, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Alfred Brehm, and Karl Richard Lepsius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 982 out of 6,770. Before him are Juliette Récamier (1777), Alain Touraine (1925), Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813), Catherine of Valois (1401), Jules Renard (1864), and Cardinal de Rohan (1734). After him are Henri Giraud (1879), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), Philippe Ariès (1914), Germaine of Foix (1488), and Étienne Bézout (1730).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 18. Before him are Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763). After him are Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698).

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