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Mathieu Orfila

1787 - 1853

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Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (Catalan: Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger) (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mathieu Orfila has received more than 127,484 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mathieu Orfila is the 371st most popular chemist (down from 355th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from Spain (down from 807th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Mathieu Orfila ranks 371 out of 509Before him are Carl Djerassi, Paul Ulrich Villard, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Otto Schott, Jennifer Doudna, and André-Louis Debierne. After him are Hermann von Fehling, Friedrich Stromeyer, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Franz von Soxhlet, and Thomas Andrews.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Mathieu Orfila ranks 23Before him are James Weddell, Ludwig Uhland, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, Christian Ludwig Brehm, and Pellegrino Rossi. After him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Alexander Alyabyev, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Michele Carafa, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Josephine Kablick. Among people deceased in 1853, Mathieu Orfila ranks 30Before him are Anastasio Bustamante, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Lionel Kieseritzky, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Louis Visconti. After him are Princess Amalia of Sweden, Hyacinth, Branko Radičević, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, William R. King, and Juan Antonio Lavalleja.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Mathieu Orfila ranks 902 out of 2,932Before him are Álvaro Morata (1992), Paco Tous (1964), Nieves Navarro (1938), Indalecio Prieto (1883), Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz (1310), and Pedro Salinas (1891). After him are Úrsula Corberó (1989), Ricardo Viñes (1875), Luis Cernuda (1902), Abbad II al-Mu'tadid (1012), Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1515), and Ramón Franco (1896).

Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Mathieu Orfila ranks 1After him are Andrés Manuel del Río (1764), Fausto Elhuyar (1755), and Juan José Elhuyar (1754).