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Coenraad Johannes van Houten

1801 - 1887

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Coenraad Johannes van Houten (15 March 1801 – 27 May 1887) was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker known for the treatment of cocoa mass with alkaline salts to remove the bitter taste and make cocoa solids more water-soluble; the resulting product is still called "Dutch process chocolate". He has also been credited with introducing a method for pressing the fat (cocoa butter) from roasted cocoa beans, though this was in fact his father Casparus van Houten's invention. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Coenraad Johannes van Houten is the 423rd most popular chemist (down from 396th in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 498th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 423 out of 602. Before him are Otto Wichterle, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Walther Kossel, Carl Graebe, Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, and Lina Stern. After him are Hugo Schiff, Claudine Picardet, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Maud Menten, Georges Urbain, and Christian Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 53. Before him are Eugène Burnouf, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Hippolyte Bayard, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Pedro Santana, and Kristjan Jaak Peterson. After him are Charles Elliot, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Wilhem de Haan, Atanasio Aguirre, Evangelos Damaskos, and Jan Kalivoda. Among people deceased in 1887, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 27. Before him are Anandi Gopal Joshi, Hans von Marées, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, J. C. Jacobsen, Hippolyte Bayard, and Ditlev Gothard Monrad. After him are August von Werder, August W. Eichler, Peter Jan Beckx, Otto Lesser, Alvan Clark, and Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 528 out of 1,646. Before him are Hendrikus Colijn (1869), Nina Foch (1924), Adri van der Poel (1959), Louis Andriessen (1939), Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), and Teun A. van Dijk (1943). After him are Kees Kist (1952), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Dirck Coornhert (1522), Matthias Stom (1600), Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612), and Joachim Wtewael (1566).

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Among CHEMISTS In Netherlands

Among chemists born in Netherlands, Coenraad Johannes van Houten ranks 5. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Ben Feringa (1951), and C. H. D. Buys Ballot (1817). After him are Albert Kluyver (1888).

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