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Jean Stas

1813 - 1891

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Jean Servais Stas (21 August 1813 – 13 December 1891) was a Belgian analytical chemist who co-discovered the atomic weight of carbon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Stas has received more than 40,233 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Stas is the 431st most popular chemist (down from 388th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 407th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Chemist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean Stas ranks 431 out of 509. Before him are Edmond Frémy, Fausto Elhuyar, Henri Laborit, Edward Charles Howard, Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Johann Schweigger. After him are Arthur Aikin, Walter Noddack, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Luis E. Miramontes, Archibald Scott Couper, and Jacques-Louis Soret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Jean Stas ranks 52. Before him are József Eötvös, Jacob Georg Agardh, Theodor Kotschy, Nikolay Ogarev, Otto Ludwig, and John C. Frémont. After him are Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Otto Jahn, Stephen A. Douglas, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Errico Petrella, and Karel Sabina. Among people deceased in 1891, Jean Stas ranks 75. Before him are Miklós Ybl, José María Iglesias, Theodor Aman, Karl Maximovich, George Washington Williams, and Ahmed Vefik Pasha. After him are Laza Lazarević, Carl Johan Thyselius, Henry Litolff, Sarah Childress Polk, Joseph Leidy, and Nikolay Ilminsky.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Stas ranks 478 out of 1,019. Before him are Marcel Kint (1914), Georges Berger (1918), Jean Duvieusart (1900), Romain Maes (1912), Christl Cranz (1914), and Peter Jan Beckx (1795). After him are Erwin Vandenbergh (1959), Julien Ries (1920), Jijé (1914), Louis Paul Boon (1912), Philippe Van Parijs (1951), and Thomas Vermaelen (1985).

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Among CHEMISTS In Belgium

Among chemists born in Belgium, Jean Stas ranks 6. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Ernest Solvay (1838), Yves Chauvin (1930), Leo Baekeland (1863), and George Sarton (1884). After him are Gilbert Stork (1921).

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