1944 - Today
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ sovaʒ]; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Pierre Sauvage has received more than 210,980 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Jean-Pierre Sauvage is the 178th most popular chemist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 1,189th most popular biography from France (up from 1,370th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Chemist.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage is most famous for his discovery of the chemical reaction that creates a new type of molecule called a [succinimide] that he and his colleagues found to be an important part of the process of photosynthesis.
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Among chemists, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 178 out of 509. Before him are John Vane, Rodney Robert Porter, Stephanie Kwolek, Arthur Kornberg, George Porter, and Georg Wittig. After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard, Louis Jacques Thénard, Max Perutz, Joachim Frank, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Walter Gilbert.
1927 - 2004
HPI: 60.91
Rank: 172
1917 - 1985
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 173
1923 - 2014
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 174
1918 - 2007
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 175
1920 - 2002
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 176
1897 - 1987
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 177
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 178
1802 - 1876
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 179
1777 - 1857
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 180
1914 - 2002
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 181
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 182
1935 - 2021
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 183
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 184
Among people born in 1944, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 72. Before him are Peter Weir, Maria João Pires, David J. Wineland, Bernard Cornwell, Nelson Freire, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. After him are Günter Netzer, Klaus Nomi, Bernhard Schlink, Serge Haroche, Jeroen Krabbé, and Thein Sein.
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 66
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.08
Rank: 67
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 68
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 69
1944 - 2021
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 70
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.89
Rank: 71
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 72
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 73
1944 - 1983
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 74
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 75
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 76
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 77
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 78
Among people born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 1,189 out of 6,011. Before him are Johannes Tauler (1300), Comtessa de Dia (1175), Charibert II (618), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697), Étienne Bézout (1730), and Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609). After him are Charles, Duke of Berry (1686), Julien Green (1900), Gérard Genette (1930), Max Linder (1883), Pierre Bergé (1930), and Étienne Cabet (1788).
1300 - 1361
HPI: 60.89
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1175 - 1225
HPI: 60.88
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618 - 632
HPI: 60.87
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1697 - 1764
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 1,186
1730 - 1783
HPI: 60.84
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1609 - 1670
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 1,188
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 1,189
1686 - 1714
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 1,190
1900 - 1998
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,191
1930 - 2018
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 1,192
1883 - 1925
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 1,193
1930 - 2017
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 1,194
1788 - 1856
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 1,195
Among chemists born in France, Jean-Pierre Sauvage ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742). After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838).
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
1906 - 1987
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 26
1838 - 1912
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 27