CHEMIST

Joseph Bienaimé Caventou

1795 - 1877

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Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf bjɛ̃nɛme kavɑ̃tu]; 30 June 1795 – 5 May 1877) was a French pharmacist. He was a professor at the École de Pharmacie (School of Pharmacy) in Paris. He collaborated with Pierre-Joseph Pelletier in a Parisian laboratory located behind an apothecary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bienaimé Caventou has received more than 54,858 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Bienaimé Caventou is the 442nd most popular chemist (down from 414th in 2019), the 3,790th most popular biography from France (down from 3,388th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 442 out of 602Before him are Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Juan José Elhuyar, and Henri Laborit. After him are Gaston Tissandier, Henri Braconnot, Antoine Bussy, Myrtle Bachelder, Jacques-Louis Soret, and James B. Conant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 45Before him are Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Arthur Morin, Peter Jan Beckx, Thomas Arnold, Adolf Bernhard Marx, and Heinrich Rose. After him are Joseph Böhm, Rowland Hill, Bernt Michael Holmboe, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Benjamin Morrell, and Pedro María de Anaya. Among people deceased in 1877, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 44Before him are Nikolay Ogarev, Nathaniel Palmer, Errico Petrella, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Johann von Herbeck, and Angelica Singleton Van Buren. After him are Caroline Unger, Fernán Caballero, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jung Bahadur Rana, Georg Adolf Erman, and Janko Matúška.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 3,790 out of 6,770Before him are Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), Camille Mandrillon (1891), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), André Gill (1840), and Jean Richard (1921). After him are Louis de Freycinet (1779), Daniel Bensaïd (1946), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Jean Decoux (1884), Pierre Weiss (1865), and Jacques Dupont (1928).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou ranks 52Before him are Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Georges Urbain (1872), and Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847). After him are Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), and James Smithson (1765).