1743 - 1822
René Just Haüy (French pronunciation: [aɥi]) FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 3 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Just Haüy has received more than 44,305 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). René Just Haüy is the 141st most popular social activist (down from 114th in 2019), the 1,375th most popular biography from France (down from 1,240th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Social Activist.
René Descartes is most famous for his philosophical writings, especially his Meditations on First Philosophy.
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Among social activists, René Just Haüy ranks 141 out of 544. Before him are Steve Biko, Andreas Hofer, Gaius Julius Civilis, Gerda Christian, Fred Phelps, and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. After him are Klaus Störtebeker, Stjepan Filipović, Rudi Dutschke, Leopold Trepper, Jan Karski, and Musa al-Sadr.
1946 - 1977
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 135
1767 - 1810
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 136
25 - 100
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 137
1913 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 138
1929 - 2014
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 139
1208 - 1265
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 140
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 141
1360 - 1401
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 142
1916 - 1942
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 143
1940 - 1979
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 144
1904 - 1982
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 145
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 146
1928 - 1978
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 147
Among people born in 1743, René Just Haüy ranks 15. Before him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Edmund Cartwright, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Nicolai Abildgaard. After him are Gavrila Derzhavin, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Joseph Banks, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, and William Paley. Among people deceased in 1822, René Just Haüy ranks 11. Before him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. After him are Paolo Ruffini, Valentin Haüy, Jean-Robert Argand, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.
1743 - 1808
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 9
1743 - 1817
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 10
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 11
1743 - 1819
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 12
1743 - 1828
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 13
1743 - 1809
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 14
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 15
1743 - 1816
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 16
1743 - 1821
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 17
1743 - 1803
HPI: 67.91
Rank: 18
1743 - 1820
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 19
1743 - 1810
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 20
1743 - 1805
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 21
1750 - 1822
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 5
1748 - 1822
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 6
1738 - 1822
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 7
1766 - 1822
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 8
1746 - 1822
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 9
1749 - 1822
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 11
1765 - 1822
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 12
1745 - 1822
HPI: 67.87
Rank: 13
1768 - 1822
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 14
1750 - 1822
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 15
1757 - 1822
HPI: 66.57
Rank: 16
1769 - 1822
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 17
Among people born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 1,375 out of 5,234. Before him are Arnaud Amalric (1160), William Farel (1489), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Édouard Vuillard (1868), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), and Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334). After him are Eugène Atget (1857), Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (1446), Henri Giffard (1825), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), Rudolph III of Burgundy (971), and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675).
1160 - 1225
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 1,369
1489 - 1565
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 1,370
1208 - 1265
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 1,371
1868 - 1940
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 1,372
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,373
1334 - 1383
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,374
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,375
1857 - 1927
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 1,376
1446 - 1472
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 1,377
1825 - 1882
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 1,378
1670 - 1734
HPI: 68.78
Rank: 1,379
971 - 1032
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 1,380
1675 - 1755
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 1,381
Among social activists born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 10. Before him are Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Flora Tristan (1803), Louise Michel (1830), Léon Jouhaux (1879), and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208). After him are Jacques Roux (1752), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Abbé Pierre (1912), Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), and Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811).
1845 - 1934
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 4
1887 - 1976
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 5
1803 - 1844
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 6
1830 - 1905
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 7
1879 - 1954
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 8
1208 - 1265
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 9
1743 - 1822
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 10
1752 - 1794
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 11
1557 - 1584
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12
1912 - 2007
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 13
1859 - 1892
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 14
1350 - 1358
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 15
1811 - 1883
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 16