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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 20,038 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Delafontaine is the 486th most popular chemist (down from 464th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 421st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marc Delafontaine ranks 486 out of 509Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Peter Armbruster, Lev Chugaev, Johannes Wislicenus, Karol Olszewski, and Vera Yevstafievna Popova. After him are C. N. R. Rao, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Gustav Rose, Helen Murray Free, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, and Zdenko Hans Skraup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Marc Delafontaine ranks 92Before him are Eli Lilly, Duleep Singh, Stefanos Skouloudis, Octavia Hill, Cleveland Abbe, and Margaret E. Knight. After him are Henry Hobson Richardson, Walter Buller, and Joseph F. Smith. Among people deceased in 1911, Marc Delafontaine ranks 70Before him are Dragan Tsankov, W. S. Gilbert, Ernst Brenner, Vassily Maximov, William McGregor, and Anton Josef Gruscha. After him are Pedro Paterno, Mahboob Ali Khan, José López Domínguez, Georg Hilmar, Albert Ladenburg, and Eugene Burton Ely.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 492 out of 876Before him are Michelle Hunziker (1977), Lauro Amadò (1912), Karin Keller-Sutter (1963), Gianni Bugno (1964), Kubilay Türkyilmaz (1967), and Ueli Steck (1976). After him are Mick Schumacher (1999), Bruno Manser (1954), Béatrix Beck (1914), Marc Faber (1946), Yvonne Rüegg (1938), and Kurt Furgler (1924).

Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 12Before him are Jacques Dubochet (1942), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), and Jacques-Louis Soret (1827).