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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 19,982 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Louis Le Chatelier is the 358th most popular chemist (up from 394th in 2019), the 2,748th most popular biography from France (up from 3,123rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 358 out of 509Before him are Auguste Laurent, Tim Hunt, Albert Ghiorso, Roger Y. Tsien, Thomas C. Südhof, and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein. After him are George Washington Carver, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Kazimierz Fajans, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Kamala Sohonie, and Louis Camille Maillard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 33Before him are John A. Macdonald, Wilhelm Peters, Ii Naosuke, Horace Wells, Ang Mey, and James Curtis Hepburn. After him are Robert Remak, Temistocle Solera, George Meade, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Louise Rasmussen, and Crawford Long. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 32Before him are Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, and Urbano Rattazzi. After him are Adam Sedgwick, Wilhelm Marstrand, Francis Garnier, Hermann Hankel, Ferdinand David, and Auguste von Harrach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 2,748 out of 6,011Before him are Peter II, Duke of Brittany (1418), Eugène Schneider (1805), Christian Kramp (1760), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), André Salmon (1881), and Fabrice Luchini (1951). After him are Adolphe Pégoud (1889), Henri Gervex (1852), Jean Lorrain (1855), François-Xavier Ortoli (1925), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), and John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 43Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Paul Héroult (1863), Charles Friedel (1822), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), and Auguste Laurent (1807). After him are Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Nicolas Lemery (1645), and Georges Urbain (1872).