CHEMIST

Louis Jacques Thénard

1777 - 1857

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Louis Jacques Thénard (4 May 1777 – 21 June 1857) was a French chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Jacques Thénard has received more than 88,257 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Louis Jacques Thénard is the 197th most popular chemist (down from 180th in 2019), the 1,198th most popular biography from France (down from 1,193rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Chemist.

Louis Jacques Thénard is most famous for his work in organic chemistry, which led to the discovery of sulfuric acid.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 197 out of 602. Before him are Hennig Brand, Roald Hoffmann, Alan MacDiarmid, Paul L. Modrich, Robert Curl, and William Standish Knowles. After him are Max Perutz, John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Mario J. Molina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 12. Before him are Henry Clay, Elisa Bonaparte, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Juliette Récamier, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, and Philipp Otto Runge. After him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Bernard Courtois, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Filippo Taglioni. Among people deceased in 1857, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 15. Before him are Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, and Pierre-Jean de Béranger. After him are Johan Christian Dahl, Mangal Pandey, Josef Ressel, Alcide d'Orbigny, Marquis de Custine, and George Cayley.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 1,198 out of 6,770. Before him are Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), François Cluzet (1955), Charibert II (618), Marie Laurencin (1883), René Thom (1923), and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (1930). After him are Jean Todt (1946), Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838), Alain de Benoist (1943), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), and Fromental Halévy (1799).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 22. Before him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742). After him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), and Bernard Courtois (1777).

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