CHEMIST

Franz Karl Achard

1753 - 1821

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Franz Karl Achard (28 April 1753 – 20 April 1821) was a German (Prussian) chemist, geoscientist, physicist, and biologist. His principal discovery was the production of sugar from sugar beets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Karl Achard is the 269th most popular chemist (down from 219th in 2019), the 1,235th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,156th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Franz Karl Achard ranks 269 out of 602. Before him are Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Martin Rodbell, Dudley R. Herschbach, Edwin G. Krebs, Emil Erlenmeyer, and Fraser Stoddart. After him are Elias James Corey, Georg Brandt, Rudolph A. Marcus, Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Ben Feringa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Franz Karl Achard ranks 12. Before him are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Utamaro, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark. After him are Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Samuel Crompton, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, and Josef Dobrovský. Among people deceased in 1821, Franz Karl Achard ranks 6. Before him are Napoleon, John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Caroline of Brunswick. After him are John William Polidori, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gregory V of Constantinople, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tudor Vladimirescu, and Johann Jacob Schweppe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Karl Achard ranks 1,235 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Aumann (1930), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), Christiane F. (1962), Lucian Freud (1922), Marie of Prussia (1825), and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874). After him are Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1661), Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Paul Natorp (1854), and Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Franz Karl Achard ranks 46. Before him are Hennig Brand (1630), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), John Polanyi (1929), Fritz Strassmann (1902), and Emil Erlenmeyer (1825). After him are Joachim Sauer (1949), Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Leopold Gmelin (1788), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), and Andreas Libavius (1555).

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