CHEMIST

Nicolas Leblanc

1742 - 1806

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Nicolas Leblanc (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ləblɑ̃]; December 6, 1742 – January 16, 1806) was a French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Leblanc has received more than 80,922 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Nicolas Leblanc is the 187th most popular chemist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 1,150th most popular biography from France (down from 1,144th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Chemist.

Nicolas Leblanc is most famous for his discovery of the first chemical process to produce soda ash.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 187 out of 602. Before him are Germain Henri Hess, John Cornforth, Stanley Miller, Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, and F. Sherwood Rowland. After him are Robert S. Mulliken, Emil Erlenmeyer, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Hennig Brand, Roald Hoffmann, and Alan MacDiarmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 8. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Yemelyan Pugachev, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After him are Dositej Obradović, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Ignaz von Born, and Charlotte von Stein. Among people deceased in 1806, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 16. Before him are Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Johann Christoph Adelung, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, and Claude Nicolas Ledoux. After him are Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Michel Adanson, Mungo Park, and Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 1,150 out of 6,770. Before him are Christophe Plantin (1520), Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (1012), Jean Giraudoux (1882), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), Jeanne d'Évreux (1310), and Louis Jourdan (1921). After him are Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580), Marcel Dupré (1886), André Maginot (1877), and André Bazin (1918).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850). After him are Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), and Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802).

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