CHEMIST

Marc Delafontaine

1838 - 1911

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Marc Delafontaine (March 31, 1837/1838, Céligny, Switzerland–1911) was a Swiss chemist and spectroscopist who was involved in discovering and investigating some of the rare earth elements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Delafontaine has received more than 21,882 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marc Delafontaine is the 514th most popular chemist (down from 485th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 490th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marc Delafontaine ranks 514 out of 602. Before him are Johannes Thiele, Nina Andreyeva, Michael Behe, Alexander Nesmeyanov, Claudine Picardet, and Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen. After him are Sergey Lebedev, Rainer Ludwig Claisen, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Lev Chugaev, Albert Ladenburg, and Edward Goodrich Acheson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Marc Delafontaine ranks 95. Before him are Gustav Neumann, Ferdinand Zirkel, Stefanos Skouloudis, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Alexander Veselovsky, and General Tom Thumb. After him are Oskar Gripenberg, John Morley, Octavia Hill, John Wanamaker, Margaret E. Knight, and Henry Hobson Richardson. Among people deceased in 1911, Marc Delafontaine ranks 80. Before him are José López Domínguez, Carl Folcker, Dezső Bánffy, William McGregor, Mahboob Ali Khan, and Vassily Maximov. After him are Pedro Paterno, Albert Ladenburg, Georg Hilmar, Morten Müller, Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, and Adolf Bernhard Meyer.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 550 out of 1,015. Before him are Lauro Amadò (1912), Frank Séchehaye (1907), Pierre Graber (1908), Marc Rosset (1970), Yvonne Rüegg (1938), and Joël Dicker (1985). After him are Henri Dès (1940), Charles Bouvier (1898), Georges Miez (1904), Werner Günthör (1961), Eugen Meier (1930), and Albert Rösti (1967).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 13. Before him are Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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