1871 - 1935
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 194,384 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Victor Grignard is the 43rd most popular chemist (up from 46th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from France (up from 580th in 2019) and the 7th 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, Victor Grignard ranks 43 out of 509. Before him are Carl Bosch, Walther Nernst, Gertrude B. Elion, Henrik Dam, Ilya Prigogine, and Frederick Soddy. After him are Theodor Svedberg, William Crookes, Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, and Francis William Aston.
1874 - 1940
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 37
1864 - 1941
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 38
1918 - 1999
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 39
1895 - 1976
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 40
1917 - 2003
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 41
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 42
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 43
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 44
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 45
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 46
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 49
Among people born in 1871, Victor Grignard ranks 11. Before him are Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Pietro Badoglio, Guangxu Emperor, and Baroness Mary Vetsera. After him are Albert Lebrun, Ioannis Metaxas, Grazia Deledda, Elena of Montenegro, Lesya Ukrainka, and Heinrich Mann. Among people deceased in 1935, Victor Grignard ranks 16. Before him are Alban Berg, Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, Auguste Escoffier, Charles Richet, and Carlos Gardel. After him are Paul Dukas, Henri Barbusse, Jane Addams, Hugo de Vries, Hugo Junkers, and John Macleod.
1871 - 1915
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 5
1871 - 1919
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 6
1871 - 1945
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 7
1871 - 1956
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 8
1871 - 1908
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 9
1871 - 1889
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 10
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 11
1871 - 1950
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 12
1871 - 1941
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 13
1871 - 1936
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 14
1871 - 1952
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 15
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 16
1871 - 1950
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 17
1885 - 1935
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 10
1905 - 1935
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 11
1878 - 1935
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 12
1847 - 1935
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 13
1850 - 1935
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 14
1890 - 1935
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 15
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 16
1865 - 1935
HPI: 66.64
Rank: 17
1873 - 1935
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 18
1860 - 1935
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 19
1848 - 1935
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 20
1859 - 1935
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 21
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 22
Among people born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 483 out of 6,011. Before him are Christine Lagarde (1956), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Aristide Briand (1862), Alfred Kastler (1902), Emmanuel Macron (1977), and Henri, Count of Chambord (1820). After him are Gérard Philipe (1922), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Mireille Darc (1938), Emma of Normandy (985), and Jean-Martin Charcot (1825).
1956 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 477
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 478
1862 - 1932
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 479
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 480
1977 - Present
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 481
1820 - 1883
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 482
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 483
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 484
1834 - 1904
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 485
1790 - 1869
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 486
1938 - 2017
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 487
985 - 1052
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 488
1825 - 1893
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 489
Among chemists born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 7. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), and Alfred Werner (1866). After him are Joseph Black (1728), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), and Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786).
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 1
1743 - 1794
HPI: 81.80
Rank: 2
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 3
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 4
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 6
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 7
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 8
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 10
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 11
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 12
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 13