CHEMIST

Pierre Joseph Pelletier

1788 - 1842

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Pierre-Joseph Pelletier (UK: PEL-ə-tee-ay, US: PEL-ə-TYAY, French: [pjɛʁ ʒozɛf pɛltje]; 22 March 1788 – 19 July 1842) was a French chemist and pharmacist who did notable research on vegetable alkaloids, and was the co-discoverer with Joseph Bienaimé Caventou of quinine, caffeine, and strychnine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Joseph Pelletier has received more than 59,189 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Joseph Pelletier is the 345th most popular chemist (down from 329th in 2019), the 2,447th most popular biography from France (down from 2,369th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Pierre Joseph Pelletier ranks 345 out of 602. Before him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Charles Macintosh, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Carl Reichenbach. After him are Roger Y. Tsien, Carl Djerassi, Charles Hatchett, Louis Camille Maillard, Julia Lermontova, and Viktor Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Pierre Joseph Pelletier ranks 26. Before him are Leopold Gmelin, David d'Angers, Friedrich Rückert, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, and Carl Reichenbach. After him are Felice Romani, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, and Rafael Urdaneta. Among people deceased in 1842, Pierre Joseph Pelletier ranks 20. Before him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francisco Morazán, José de Espronceda, Wojciech Żywny, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey. After him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Pierre Baillot, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, and Robert Smith.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Joseph Pelletier ranks 2,447 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Pialat (1925), Maximilien Luce (1858), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Geneviève Page (1927), Jo Schlesser (1928), and Bérenger Saunière (1852). After him are Jacques Pills (1906), Marguerite Gérard (1761), Antoine Coysevox (1640), Blanche of Artois (1248), Félix d'Herelle (1873), and Roman Opałka (1931).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Pierre Joseph Pelletier ranks 38. Before him are Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807), Charles Friedel (1822), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), François-Marie Raoult (1830), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801). After him are Louis Camille Maillard (1878), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Paul Héroult (1863), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), and Auguste Laurent (1807).

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