CHEMIST

Juan José Elhuyar

1754 - 1796

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Juan José Elhuyar Lubize (15 June 1754 – 20 September 1796) was a Spanish chemist and mineralogist, who was best known for being first to isolate tungsten with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783. He was born in Logroño, in northern Spain and died in Santafé de Bogotá, New Granada (present-day Colombia) at 42. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan José Elhuyar has received more than 49,535 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Juan José Elhuyar is the 440th most popular chemist (up from 474th in 2019), the 1,222nd most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,384th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 440 out of 602. Before him are Anders Jahan Retzius, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Anna Sundström, Heinrich Rose, Nikolay Zinin, and Lars Fredrik Nilson. After him are Henri Laborit, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Gaston Tissandier, Henri Braconnot, Antoine Bussy, and Myrtle Bachelder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 43. Before him are Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Peter Winter, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, Grace Elliott, Banastre Tarleton, and Ivan Martos. After him are Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Vincenzo Monti, Anna Maria Lenngren, Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg, and Hipólito Ruiz López. Among people deceased in 1796, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 23. Before him are Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, François Séverin Marceau, William Chambers, and Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. After him are Philip Carteret, Adam Naruszewicz, David Allan, Ulrika Pasch, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, and Anthony Wayne.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 1,222 out of 3,355. Before him are Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), Juan Fernández Navarrete (1526), Francis Solanus (1549), Ramiro de Maeztu (1875), Miguel Ángel Lotina (1957), and Juan Modesto (1906). After him are Carmen Martín Gaite (1925), Ricardo Blázquez (1942), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), Isabel Coixet (1960), Valeriano Weyler (1838), and Nicolás Monardes (1508).

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Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 5. Before him are Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Mathieu Orfila (1787), Fausto Elhuyar (1755), and Andrés Manuel del Río (1764).

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