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Claudine Picardet

1735 - 1820

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Claudine Picardet (born Poullet, later Guyton de Morveau) (7 August 1735 – 4 October 1820) was a French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator. Among the French chemists of the late eighteenth century she stands out for her extensive translations of scientific literature from Swedish, English, German and Italian to French. She translated three books and thousands of pages of scientific papers, which were published as well as circulated in manuscript form. She hosted renowned scientific and literary salons in Dijon and Paris, and was an active participant in the collection of meteorological data. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claudine Picardet is the 425th most popular chemist (up from 512th in 2019), the 3,443rd most popular biography from France (up from 4,608th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Claudine Picardet ranks 425 out of 602. Before her are Walther Kossel, Carl Graebe, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, Lina Stern, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, and Hugo Schiff. After her are Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Georges Urbain, Christian Gmelin, Jacques-Louis Soret, and Albert Niemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1735, Claudine Picardet ranks 23. Before her are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Dmitry Levitzky, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Ignacy Krasicki, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and Paul Kray. After her are József Alvinczi, Joseph Ducreux, Ivan Kulibin, Domenico Vandelli, Princess Frederica Caroline of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Ulrika Pasch. Among people deceased in 1820, Claudine Picardet ranks 34. Before her are Benjamin West, Nguyễn Du, Antonín Vranický, Karl Ludwig Sand, Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Ivan Gudovich. After her are Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Alexis Thérèse Petit, Charles Blagden, and Palisot de Beauvois.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claudine Picardet ranks 3,443 out of 6,770. Before her are Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), François de La Rocque (1885), Philippe LeBon (1767), Paul Grimault (1905), Gustave Schlumberger (1844), and Jean de Roquetaillade (1310). After her are Bernard Panafieu (1931), Jean Tiberi (1935), François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1558), René Maire (1878), Charles Laval (1862), and Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Claudine Picardet ranks 48. Before her are Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757). After her are Georges Urbain (1872), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852).

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