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Georges Urbain

1872 - 1938

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Georges Urbain (12 April 1872 – 5 November 1938) was a French chemist, a professor of the Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and director of the Institute of Chemistry in Paris. Much of his work focused on the rare earths, isolating and separating elements such as europium and gadolinium, and studying their spectra, their magnetic properties and their atomic masses. He discovered the element lutetium (atomic number 71). He also studied the efflorescence of saline hydrates. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Urbain is the 428th most popular chemist (up from 432nd in 2019), the 3,495th most popular biography from France (up from 3,678th in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Georges Urbain ranks 428 out of 602. Before him are Lina Stern, Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Hugo Schiff, Claudine Picardet, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, and Maud Menten. After him are Christian Gmelin, Jacques-Louis Soret, Albert Niemann, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Hans Tropsch, and Louis Le Chatelier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Georges Urbain ranks 109. Before him are Carl Gustaf Ekman, Paul Reinecke, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Vilhelms Purvītis, and Karin Michaëlis. After him are Kristine Bonnevie, Tōson Shimazaki, Déodat de Séverac, Kazimierz Bein, Franz John, and Rudolf Schlechter. Among people deceased in 1938, Georges Urbain ranks 132. Before him are Leopoldo Lugones, Aleksander Kakowski, Joseph Strauss, Tang Shaoyi, Paolo Troubetzkoy, and Agvan Dorzhiev. After him are Samuel Alexander, Jānis Rudzutaks, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Gazanfar Musabekov, and Prince Arsen of Yugoslavia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 3,495 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Coralli (1779), Suzy Delair (1917), Édouard Colonne (1838), Thomas of Britain (1200), William of Jumièges (1000), and Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613). After him are Claude Abbes (1927), Claude Miller (1942), François Hennebique (1842), Jean-François Revel (1924), Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817), and Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1646).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Georges Urbain ranks 49. Before him are Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847), Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816), Nicolas Lemery (1645), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), and Claudine Picardet (1735). After him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), and Auguste Laurent (1807).

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