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Nicolas Appert

1749 - 1841

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Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 – 1 June 1841) was a French confectioner and inventor who, in the early 19th century, invented airtight food preservation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Appert has received more than 337,507 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Nicolas Appert is the 32nd most popular inventor (up from 41st in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from France (up from 419th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Inventor.

Nicolas Appert is most famous for inventing the process of canning food to preserve it.

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  • 69.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 85

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicolas Appert ranks 32 out of 426. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Antonio Meucci, Denis Papin, Steve Wozniak, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Thomas Newcomen. After him are Eli Whitney, George Westinghouse, Igor Sikorsky, Robert Fulton, László Bíró, and Richard Trevithick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Nicolas Appert ranks 6. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Jenner, Christian VII of Denmark, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are Yolande de Polastron, Domenico Cimarosa, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1841, Nicolas Appert ranks 2. Before him is Johann Friedrich Herbart. After him are William Henry Harrison, Mikhail Lermontov, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caroline of Baden, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, Minh Mạng, and Ferdinando Carulli.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Appert ranks 369 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Buridan (1295), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), Pope Nicholas II (990), Philip the Bold (1342), and Jean Baudrillard (1929). After him are Alain Prost (1955), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), Theodor Eicke (1892), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), and Ève Curie (1904).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicolas Appert ranks 7. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), and Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752). After him are Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830).

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