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Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt

1731 - 1799

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Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (24 July 1731 – 17 October 1799) was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound. He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt has received more than 24,168 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt is the 465th most popular chemist, the 3,986th most popular biography from France and the 57th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 465 out of 509Before him are William Hallowes Miller, Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, Caleb Bradham, Hans Goldschmidt, and Theodor Curtius. After him are Christopher Kelk Ingold, Jan Szczepanik, James B. Conant, Heinrich Rose, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Masatoshi Shima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 17Before him are Maria Fortunata d'Este, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Cowper, Charles Lee, and Gabriela Silang. After him are Benjamin Banneker, Samuel Huntington, and Robert Treat Paine. Among people deceased in 1799, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 37Before him are Jean-Étienne Montucla, Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Johann Julius Walbaum, William Withering, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and Vasily Bazhenov. After him is William Paca.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 3,986 out of 6,011Before him are Florence Delay (1941), Marc Fumaroli (1932), Jean Tiberi (1935), Serge Telle (1955), André Lerond (1930), and André Darrigade (1929). After him are Gaston Billotte (1875), Émile Souvestre (1806), Louis Garrel (1983), Louis Pouzin (1931), Philippe Jaroussky (1978), and Maurice Raynaud (1834).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 57Before him are Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Edmond Frémy (1814), and Pierre Adet (1763). After him are Antoine Bussy (1794) and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817).