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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

1758 - 1836

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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, later Countess von Rumford, (20 January 1758 in Montbrison, Loire, France – 10 February 1836) was a French chemist and noblewoman. Madame Lavoisier's first husband was the chemist and nobleman Antoine Lavoisier. She acted as his laboratory companion, using her linguistic skills to write up his work and bring it to an international audience. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier has received more than 216,448 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier is the 114th most popular chemist (up from 157th in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,178th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Chemist.

Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier is most famous for being the wife of Antoine Lavoisier, a chemist who discovered the law of conservation of mass.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 114 out of 509Before her are Antoni Grabowski, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Paul J. Crutzen, James Dewar, and Stanford Moore. After her are Leopold Ružička, Avram Hershko, John Macleod, Casimir Funk, Richard R. Ernst, and William Howard Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 9Before her are James Monroe, André Masséna, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor Go-Momozono, and Kamehameha I. After her are Franz Joseph Gall, Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, and Osman Pazvantoğlu. Among people deceased in 1836, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 9Before her are James Madison, Letizia Ramolino, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Godwin, and Maria Malibran. After her are James Mill, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Davy Crockett, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Anthony of Saxony, and Anton Reicha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 833 out of 6,011Before her are Pauline Viardot (1821), Chevalier d'Éon (1728), Germaine of Foix (1488), Eric Cantona (1966), Saint Remigius (437), and Simon Vouet (1590). After her are David Guetta (1967), Edme Mariotte (1620), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669), Robert Nivelle (1856), and Georges Dumézil (1898).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 14Before her are Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), and Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786). After her are Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Nicolas Leblanc (1742).