CHEMIST

Henri Braconnot

1780 - 1855

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Henri Braconnot (French: [ɑ̃ʁi bʁakɔno]; 29 May 1780 – 13 January 1855) was a French chemist and pharmacist. He was born in Commercy, his father being a counsel at the local parliament. At the death of his father, in 1787, Henri began his instruction in an elementary school in Commercy and then with private teachers. At 13, he was placed as apprentice in a pharmacy in Nancy where he learned and practiced pharmacy, chemistry, and botany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Braconnot is the 439th most popular chemist (up from 444th in 2019), the 3,609th most popular biography from France (up from 3,812th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henri Braconnot ranks 439 out of 602. Before him are Hans Tropsch, Louis Le Chatelier, William Gregor, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, and Juan José Elhuyar. After him are Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Michael Grätzel, Johan Kjeldahl, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Anders Jahan Retzius, and Alexander William Williamson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Henri Braconnot ranks 39. Before him are Johannes van den Bosch, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Johann Friedrich Naumann, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, and Alexey Venetsianov. After him are Fulgencio Yegros, Karoline von Günderrode, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Matvei Gedenshtrom, Piet Retief, and Elizabeth Fry. Among people deceased in 1855, Henri Braconnot ranks 38. Before him are Mihály Vörösmarty, Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha, Sergey Uvarov, Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Henri Druey, and Wilhem de Haan. After him are Guglielmo Pepe, Sahle Dengel, Joseph Aspdin, Sunthorn Phu, Josef Munzinger, and Konstantin Batyushkov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Braconnot ranks 3,609 out of 6,770. Before him are Diana Vreeland (1903), Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1586), Jules Méline (1838), Anni Steuer (1913), Albin Lermusiaux (1874), and Émile Mâle (1862). After him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet (1736), Émile Levassor (1843), Antoine Brumel (1460), Émile Fayolle (1852), and Indila (1984).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Henri Braconnot ranks 53. Before him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Claudine Picardet (1735), Georges Urbain (1872), Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), and Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817). After 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).

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