CHEMIST

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

1838 - 1912

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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, also called François Lecoq de Boisbaudran (18 April 1838 – 28 May 1912), was a self-taught French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran has received more than 74,146 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran is the 228th most popular chemist (up from 279th in 2019), the 1,371st most popular biography from France (up from 1,743rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Chemist.

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran is most famous for his discovery of the element gallium in 1875.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran ranks 228 out of 602. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter, Alfred G. Gilman, William Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown, Jacques Dubochet, and Hartmut Michel. After him are S. P. L. Sørensen, Hideki Shirakawa, Leo Baekeland, Luis Federico Leloir, Charles J. Pedersen, and Robert Bruce Merrifield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran ranks 22. Before him are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Princess Louise of Prussia, Liliʻuokalani, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Camille Jordan, and Ōkuma Shigenobu. After him are Konstanty Kalinowski, Marià Fortuny, 11th Dalai Lama, Edward W. Morley, Cleveland Abbe, and Vladimir Markovnikov. Among people deceased in 1912, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran ranks 29. Before him are Franz Reichelt, Nogi Maresuke, Osborne Reynolds, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Bolesław Prus, and John Jacob Astor IV. After him are Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Isidor Straus, Henry Tingle Wilde, Georg Heym, Mykola Lysenko, and Ion Luca Caragiale.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran ranks 1,371 out of 6,770. Before him are Marie Anne de Bourbon (1666), Livilla (-13), Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761), Roger Caillois (1913), Pierre Mauroy (1928), and Victor Cousin (1792). After him are Jacqueline Boyer (1941), Léo Taxil (1854), Michel Adanson (1727), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), and Eva Green (1980).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran ranks 25. Before him are Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698). After him are Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Bernard Courtois (1777), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Anselme Payen (1795), and Antoine Baumé (1728).

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