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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 46,474 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan José Elhuyar is the 475th most popular chemist (down from 408th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,024th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Chemist.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 475 out of 509. Before him are Heinrich Rose, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Masatoshi Shima, John Mayow, Michael Behe, and Hieronymous Theodor Richter. After him are Heinrich Caro, Neil Bartlett, Alexey Favorsky, Antoine Bussy, Sergey Lebedev, and Peter Armbruster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 44. Before him are Banastre Tarleton, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Ivan Martos, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Vincenzo Monti, and Anna Maria Lenngren. After him are Juan Meléndez Valdés, Hipólito Ruiz López, George Crabbe, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, and Archibald Menzies. Among people deceased in 1796, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 28. Before him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, David Rittenhouse, Adam Naruszewicz, Philip Carteret, Ulrika Pasch, and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani. After him are David Allan, Anthony Wayne, and Samuel Huntington.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 1,387 out of 2,932. Before him are Francisco Martínez Soria (1902), Miguel Ángel Revilla (1943), Severino Reija (1938), Marcelo González Martín (1918), José Vicente (1931), and Dani Pedrosa (1985). After him are Adrián Escudero (1927), León Felipe (1884), Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880), Vicente Asensi (1919), Terenci Moix (1942), and Pascual Madoz (1806).

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Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 4. Before him are Mathieu Orfila (1787), Andrés Manuel del Río (1764), and Fausto Elhuyar (1755).

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