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Auguste Laurent

1807 - 1853

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Auguste Laurent (14 November 1807 – 15 April 1853) was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas as a laboratory assistant. At that time, the weight of carbon was considered to be 6. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Laurent is the 449th most popular chemist (down from 374th in 2019), the 3,686th most popular biography from France (down from 2,811th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Auguste Laurent ranks 449 out of 602. Before him are Carl Remigius Fresenius, Anders Jahan Retzius, Alexander William Williamson, James Crafts, Constantin Fahlberg, and J. L. B. Smith. After him are Gaston Tissandier, John Tukey, Peter Atkins, Benjamin List, Johann Schweigger, and Nikolay Zinin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Auguste Laurent ranks 34. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber, Thiệu Trị, Robert Blum, Joseph Decaisne, Jane Digby, and Pieter Willem Korthals. After him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Emily Donelson, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Barbu Catargiu, Franz Xaver Fieber, and Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński. Among people deceased in 1853, Auguste Laurent ranks 40. Before him are Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Joaquin Murrieta, Louis Visconti, and Augustin Saint-Hilaire. After him are Maria Quitéria, Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, William Beaumont, Cesare Balbo, and Andrés Narvarte.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 3,686 out of 6,770. Before him are Harry Schell (1921), Charles Duclerc (1812), Jacques Aved (1702), Alain Chartier (1392), Émile Oustalet (1844), and Célestine Galli-Marié (1840). After him are Michel Le Tellier (1603), Lucien Pissarro (1863), Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622), Pascale Petit (1938), Peire Cardenal (1180), and Gaston Tissandier (1843).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Auguste Laurent ranks 55. Before him are Georges Urbain (1872), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852). After him are Gaston Tissandier (1843), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Edmond Frémy (1814), and Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814).

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