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Antoine Jérôme Balard

1802 - 1876

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Antoine Jérôme Balard (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ʒeʁom balaʁ]; 30 September 1802 – 30 April 1876) was a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Jérôme Balard is the 241st most popular chemist (down from 236th in 2019), the 1,164th most popular biography from France (up from 1,418th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Chemist.

Antoine Jérôme Balard was a French botanist who is most famous for his work on the flora of Algeria. He was born in 1806 and died in 1887.

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Among chemists, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 241 out of 602. Before him are John Pople, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Hideki Shirakawa, Louis Jacques Thénard, Charles J. Pedersen, and Hennig Brand. After him are Friedrich Sertürner, Nicolas Leblanc, Walter Gilbert, Arieh Warshel, Henri Victor Regnault, and Luis Federico Leloir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 13. Before him are János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, and Charles Wheatstone. After him are Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, Nikolaus Lenau, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Husein Gradaščević. Among people deceased in 1876, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 15. Before him are Truganini, Catherine Labouré, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ildefons Cerdà, Marie d'Agoult, and George Smith. After him are Hristo Botev, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, František Palacký, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Francesco Maria Piave, and Philipp Mainländer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 1,164 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise de Marillac (1591), Étienne Bézout (1730), Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Lionel Jospin (1937), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208). After him are Leonard of Noblac (496), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), Édouard Lucas (1842), André Bazin (1918), and Marion Cotillard (1975).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Antoine Jérôme Balard ranks 24. Before him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), and Louis Jacques Thénard (1777). After him are Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), and Bernard Courtois (1777).

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