CHEMIST

Paul Héroult

1863 - 1914

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Paul (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult (10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914) was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Héroult has received more than 67,147 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Paul Héroult is the 362nd most popular chemist (down from 335th in 2019), the 2,711th most popular biography from France (down from 2,409th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Héroult ranks 362 out of 602. Before him are Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Nikolay Zelinsky, Otto Schott, and Paul Walden. After him are Paul Ulrich Villard, Fritz London, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Karl Ernst Claus, Brunó Ferenc Straub, and Alexander William Williamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Paul Héroult ranks 69. Before him are Margaret Murray, Felix Blumenfeld, Joseph Caillaux, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Pierina Legnani, and Paul Walden. After him are Charles Pathé, Géza Gárdonyi, Max Skladanowsky, Eero Järnefelt, Yevhen Petrushevych, and Princess Mathilde of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1914, Paul Héroult ranks 54. Before him are John Muir, Albert Günther, Giovanni Sgambati, David Gill, Pierre Souvestre, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg. After him are Charles Devendeville, George William Hill, Anselmo Lorenzo, Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen, Itō Sukeyuki, and George Speck.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Héroult ranks 2,711 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Farrère (1876), Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), Roger Piantoni (1931), and Marie Elisabeth of France (1572). After him are Léon Werth (1878), Clément Juglar (1819), Louis Delluc (1890), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), Sulpitius the Pious (576), and Zizi Jeanmaire (1924).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Paul Héroult ranks 42. Before him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), and Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737). After him are Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), Auguste Laurent (1807), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Moungi Bawendi (1961), and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757).

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