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Edmond Frémy

1814 - 1894

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Edmond Frémy (French: [fremi]; 28 February 1814 – 3 February 1894) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best known today for Frémy's salt, a strong oxidizing agent which he discovered in 1845. Fremy's salt is a long-lived free radical that finds use as a standard in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Frémy is the 472nd most popular chemist (up from 487th in 2019), the 3,963rd most popular biography from France (up from 4,343rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Edmond Frémy ranks 472 out of 602Before him are Theodor Curtius, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Anna Sundström, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, and Donella Meadows. After him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Hugo Erdmann, K. C. Nicolaou, John Mayow, and Carl Theodore Liebermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Edmond Frémy ranks 57Before him are Felix Lichnowsky, Johann Georg Halske, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Girolamo de Rada, Franz Josef Ruprecht, and Ludwig Schläfli. After him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Adolph Tidemand, Prince Karl of Auersperg, Hermann, Prince of Wied, José Posada Herrera, and Joseph Hooker. Among people deceased in 1894, Edmond Frémy ranks 62Before him are William Robertson Smith, Juan N. Méndez, Karl von Blaas, Juventino Rosas, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, and Émile Henry. After him are Caterina Volpicelli, Rafael Núñez, Hilarión Daza, Gillis Bildt, Jubal Early, and Illarion Pryanishnikov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Frémy ranks 3,963 out of 6,770Before him are Louis Bachelier (1870), Gaston Defferre (1910), André Gill (1840), Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910), and Jacques Lecoq (1921). After him are Guy Bonnet (1945), Paul Fort (1872), Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892), Louis Hémon (1880), Marc Levy (1961), and Henri Decoin (1890).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Edmond Frémy ranks 60Before him are Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Auguste Laurent (1807), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Antoine Bussy (1794), Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720), and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731). After him are Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Pierre Adet (1763), and James Smithson (1765).