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Nicolas Leblanc

1742 - 1806

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Nicolas Leblanc (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 76,353 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Leblanc is the 163rd most popular chemist (up from 186th in 2019), the 1,148th most popular biography from France (up from 1,291st in 2019) and the 20th 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 163 out of 509. Before him are Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Satoshi Ōmura, Akira Suzuki, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Paul D. Boyer, and Richard Laurence Millington Synge. After him are Roald Hoffmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Robert Huber, Robert S. Mulliken, Sophia Brahe, and Katalin Karikó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 8. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Yemelyan Pugachev, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. After him are Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Dositej Obradović, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Ignaz von Born, and Charlotte von Stein. Among people deceased in 1806, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 17. Before him are Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, and Mungo Park. After him are Johann Christoph Adelung, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Michel Adanson, and Nicolas-Edme Rétif.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 1,148 out of 6,011. Before him are Tancred of Hauteville (980), Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837), Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (1929), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543), and Louis, Count of Évreux (1276). After him are François Achille Bazaine (1811), Eva Gonzalès (1849), Franck Ribéry (1983), Gérard Debreu (1921), Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824), and Mylène Demongeot (1935).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 20. Before him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), and Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800). After him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906).

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