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Pierre Adet

1763 - 1834

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Pierre-Auguste, chevalier Adet (17 May 1763 Nevers – 19 March 1834 Paris) was a French scientist, politician, and diplomat. He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the scientific periodical Annales de chimie, founded in 1789. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Adet has received more than 20,617 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Adet is the 471st most popular chemist (down from 444th in 2019), the 4,171st most popular biography from France (down from 3,768th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Pierre Adet ranks 471 out of 602. Before him are Johan Kjeldahl, James Smithson, William Nicholson, Phoebus Levene, Gerhard Schrader, and Hermann Wilhelm Vogel. After him are Peter Woulfe, Robert Havemann, Archibald Scott Couper, Jan Szczepanik, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, and Ludwig Knorr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Pierre Adet ranks 37. Before him are Adalbert Gyrowetz, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Dmitry Senyavin, Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Étienne-Gaspard Robert. After him are Johann Gottfried Seume, Wolfe Tone, Jens Esmark, William Cobbett, János Batsányi, and Charles Bulfinch. Among people deceased in 1834, Pierre Adet ranks 37. Before him are Thomas Telford, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Joseph Bové, Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza, Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, and Jean Louis Marie Poiret. After him are Jacques Labillardière, William H. Crawford, Thomas Say, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Adet ranks 4,171 out of 6,770. Before him are Renée Adorée (1898), Raymond Kaelbel (1932), Yves Giraud-Cabantous (1904), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), Serge Lang (1927), and Paul Paray (1886). After him are Jean Cavaillès (1903), Maurice Boitel (1919), Roger Ducret (1888), Yvonne Loriod (1924), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), and Jean, Count of Paris (1965).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Pierre Adet ranks 59. Before him are Gaston Tissandier (1843), Henri Braconnot (1780), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), and James Smithson (1765). After him are Edmond Frémy (1814), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Claudine Picardet (1735), Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817).

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