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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 61,292 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Héroult is the 335th most popular chemist (up from 347th in 2019), the 2,417th most popular biography from France (up from 2,489th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Héroult ranks 335 out of 509Before him are Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Richard Abegg, Thomas Midgley Jr., Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot. After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Paul Walden, Charles Hatchett, and William E. Moerner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Paul Héroult ranks 62Before him are Émile Friant, Princess Isabella of Bavaria, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Gabriel Pierné, Herbert James Draper, and Charles Pathé. After him are S. Ansky, Hugo Haase, Qasim Amin, Paul Walden, Vladimir Obruchev, and Fyodor Sologub. Among people deceased in 1914, Paul Héroult ranks 48Before him are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, George William Hill, John Muir, Ödön Lechner, John Henry Poynting, and Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Stevan Mokranjac, Ivan Zajc, Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and Albert Günther.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Héroult ranks 2,417 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Édouard Molinaro (1928), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), René Crevel (1900), Simone Simon (1911), and Marie Trintignant (1962). After him are Pierre Clémenti (1942), Judoc (600), Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona (1487), Georges Mathieu (1921), Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716), and Robert Badinter (1928).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Paul Héroult ranks 39Before him are Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Anselme Payen (1795), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801). After him are Charles Friedel (1822), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Auguste Laurent (1807), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Louis Camille Maillard (1878), and Paul Ulrich Villard (1860).