1838 - 1911
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, Marc Delafontaine ranks 486 out of 509. Before 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.
1874 - 1934
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 480
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 481
1873 - 1922
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 482
1835 - 1902
HPI: 45.80
Rank: 483
1846 - 1915
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 484
1867 - 1896
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 485
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 486
1934 - Present
HPI: 45.45
Rank: 487
1856 - 1931
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 488
1798 - 1873
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 489
1923 - 2021
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 490
1861 - 1938
HPI: 45.36
Rank: 491
1850 - 1910
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 492
Among people born in 1838, Marc Delafontaine ranks 92. Before 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 70. Before 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.
1838 - 1898
HPI: 46.88
Rank: 86
1838 - 1893
HPI: 46.84
Rank: 87
1838 - 1928
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 88
1838 - 1912
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 89
1838 - 1916
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 90
1838 - 1914
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 91
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 92
1838 - 1886
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 93
1838 - 1906
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 94
1838 - 1918
HPI: 40.42
Rank: 95
1828 - 1911
HPI: 47.43
Rank: 64
1836 - 1911
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 65
1856 - 1911
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 66
1844 - 1911
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 67
1846 - 1911
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 68
1820 - 1911
HPI: 45.59
Rank: 69
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 70
1857 - 1911
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 71
1866 - 1911
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 72
1829 - 1911
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 73
1876 - 1911
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 74
1842 - 1911
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 75
1886 - 1911
HPI: 43.66
Rank: 76
Among people born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 492 out of 876. Before 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).
1977 - Present
HPI: 45.93
Rank: 486
1912 - 1971
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 487
1963 - Present
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 488
1964 - Present
HPI: 45.72
Rank: 489
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 490
1976 - 2017
HPI: 45.63
Rank: 491
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 492
1999 - Present
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 493
1954 - 2005
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 494
1914 - 2008
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 495
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 496
1938 - Present
HPI: 45.37
Rank: 497
1924 - 2008
HPI: 45.34
Rank: 498
Among chemists born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 12. Before 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).
1942 - Present
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 6
1877 - 1950
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 7
1888 - 1947
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 8
1817 - 1894
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 9
1767 - 1845
HPI: 54.35
Rank: 10
1827 - 1890
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 11
1838 - 1911
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 12