CHEMIST

Joseph Achille Le Bel

1847 - 1930

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Joseph Achille Le Bel (21 January 1847 in Pechelbronn – 6 August 1930, in Paris, France) was a French chemist. He is best known for his work in stereochemistry. Le Bel was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Achille Le Bel has received more than 30,308 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joseph Achille Le Bel is the 435th most popular chemist (down from 405th in 2019), the 3,720th most popular biography from France (down from 3,273rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joseph Achille Le Bel ranks 435 out of 602. Before him are Morris Travers, Walter Noddack, Leonor Michaelis, Georges Urbain, William Gregor, and Anders Jahan Retzius. After him are Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Juan José Elhuyar, and Henri Laborit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Joseph Achille Le Bel ranks 69. Before him are Domenico Ferrata, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Charles Renard, and Michel-Joseph Maunoury. After him are Heinrich Gelzer, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Ellen Terry, Koos de la Rey, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, and Milovan Glišić. Among people deceased in 1930, Joseph Achille Le Bel ranks 80. Before him are Olena Pchilka, Misuzu Kaneko, Władysław Horodecki, Alexander Bogomazov, Herbert Hall Turner, and Glenn Curtiss. After him are Valeriano Weyler, Anna Lea Merritt, Mary Harris Jones, Enrico Forlanini, Albert von Le Coq, and Kakutsa Cholokashvili.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Achille Le Bel ranks 3,720 out of 6,770. Before him are Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), Gabriel François Doyen (1726), Julien Dupré (1851), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), and Henry Bataille (1872). After him are Alexandre Falguière (1831), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), Georges Speicher (1907), Corinne Marchand (1931), Christophe Pierre (1946), and Paul Bert (1833).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Joseph Achille Le Bel ranks 51. Before him are Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Nicolas Lemery (1645), and Georges Urbain (1872). After him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852).

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