CHEMIST

Henri Moissan

1852 - 1907

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Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan (French pronunciation: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ fʁedeʁik ɑ̃ʁi mwasɑ̃]; 28 September 1852 – 20 February 1907) was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered moissanite and contributed to the development of the electric arc furnace. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Moissan is the 35th most popular chemist (up from 39th in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from France (up from 435th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Chemist.

Henri Moissan is most famous for his discovery of the element fluorine.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henri Moissan ranks 35 out of 602. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Wallach, Alexander R. Todd, Otto Hahn, and Robert Robinson. After him are Richard Willstätter, F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, and Humphry Davy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Henri Moissan ranks 8. Before him are Albert A. Michelson, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, and William Ramsay. After him are Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Francisco Tárrega, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Among people deceased in 1907, Henri Moissan ranks 7. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Klara Hitler, Sully Prudhomme, and Oscar II of Sweden. After him are Giosuè Carducci, Asaph Hall, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hector Malot, Alfred Jarry, and Kato Svanidze.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Moissan ranks 251 out of 6,770. Before him are George Sand (1804), Gustave Le Bon (1841), Berthe Morisot (1841), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), and Camille Claudel (1864). After him are Georges Cuvier (1769), John II of France (1319), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Nadar (1820), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and Arsène Wenger (1949).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Henri Moissan ranks 5. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778). After him are Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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