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Louis Le Chatelier

1815 - 1873

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Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815 – 10 November 1873) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. His son was chemist Henry Louis Le Chatelier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Le Chatelier has received more than 22,251 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Le Chatelier is the 379th most popular chemist (down from 358th in 2019), the 2,963rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,739th in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 379 out of 602. Before him are Morten P. Meldal, Auguste Laurent, Koichi Tanaka, Rashad Khalifa, Hermann von Fehling, and Ernst Otto Beckmann. After him are Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Jacques Bergier, Friedrich Stromeyer, Tim Hunt, Jan Czochralski, and Thomas Andrews.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 37. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, Charles Renouvier, John A. Macdonald, and Seru Epenisa Cakobau. After him are Robert Remak, Theophan the Recluse, George Averoff, Temistocle Solera, Louise Rasmussen, and Ang Mey. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 36. Before him are Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Adam Sedgwick, Ferdinand David, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and Giovanni Battista Donati. After him are Bénédict Morel, Francis Garnier, Hermann Hankel, Malek Jahan Khanom, Paweł Strzelecki, and Auguste von Harrach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 2,963 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Pierre Barouh (1934), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Auguste Clésinger (1814), and Marc Seguin (1786). After him are Champfleury (1821), N'Golo Kanté (1991), René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Paul Émile Appell (1855), and Jean Fernel (1497).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 45. Before him are Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Paul Héroult (1863), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), and Auguste Laurent (1807). After 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).

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