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Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville

1720 - 1805

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Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (née Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) (17 October 1720 – 23 December 1805), was a French novelist, translator and chemist who is known for her study on putrefaction. She discussed her study on putrefaction in her Essay on the History of Putrefaction in 1766. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville is the 467th most popular chemist (down from 455th in 2019), the 3,882nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,968th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 467 out of 602. Before her are Alfred Stock, Gerhard Schrader, Antoine Bussy, Peter Woulfe, Myrtle Bachelder, and Theodor Curtius. After her are Anna Sundström, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Donella Meadows, Edmond Frémy, and Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 25. Before her are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Maximilian Hell, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles De Geer, and Justus Möser. After her is Gilbert White. Among people deceased in 1805, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 23. Before her are Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and John Robison. After her are Conrad Moench, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Thomas Wedgwood, and Mihály Csokonai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 3,882 out of 6,770. Before her are Gabriel Chevallier (1895), Herman Georges Berger (1875), Claude Fleury (1640), Rachida Dati (1965), André Chéron (1895), and Hortense Schneider (1833). After her are André Auffray (1884), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ernest Hébert (1817), Michèle Arnaud (1919), René Panhard (1841), and François Perrier (1833).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville ranks 58. Before her are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Auguste Laurent (1807), Gaston Tissandier (1843), and Antoine Bussy (1794). After her are Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Edmond Frémy (1814), Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Pierre Adet (1763), and James Smithson (1765).

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