CHEMIST

Victor Grignard

1871 - 1935

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Francois Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871 – 13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Grignard has received more than 208,391 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Victor Grignard is the 55th most popular chemist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from France (down from 483rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Chemist.

Victor Grignard was a chemist who is most famous for developing the Grignard reaction. The Grignard reaction is a chemical reaction in which an alkyl or aryl halide reacts with an alkali metal to form an organomagnesium compound.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Victor Grignard ranks 55 out of 602. Before him are Frederick Sanger, Arthur Harden, Fritz Pregl, Melvin Calvin, Frederick Soddy, and Adolf Windaus. After him are Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, Arne Tiselius, Jacques Monod, Otto Diels, Theodor Svedberg, and Norman Haworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Victor Grignard ranks 14. Before him are Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Grazia Deledda, Albert Lebrun, and Heinrich Mann. After him are Lesya Ukrainka, Elena of Montenegro, Ioannis Metaxas, Theodore Dreiser, Georges Rouault, and František Kupka. Among people deceased in 1935, Victor Grignard ranks 16. Before him are Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, Carlos Gardel, and Auguste Escoffier. After him are Charles Richet, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Henri Barbusse, Paul Dukas, Hugo de Vries, and Henri Pirenne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 525 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard II de Coligny (1519), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Childebert I (497), Roger I of Sicily (1031), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), and Auguste Escoffier (1847). After him are Allan Kardec (1804), Richard Clayderman (1953), Charles Richet (1850), Hilary of Poitiers (315), Joseph Joffre (1852), and Avitus (395).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 8. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), and Paul Sabatier (1854). After him are Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Black (1728), Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), and Jean-Marie Lehn (1939).

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