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Henry Louis Le Chatelier

1850 - 1936

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Henry Louis Le Chatelier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi lwi lə ʃɑtəlje]; 8 October 1850 – 17 September 1936) was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect a changing condition has on a system in chemical equilibrium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Louis Le Chatelier is the 53rd most popular chemist (up from 177th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from France (up from 1,104th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Chemist.

Henry Louis Le Chatelier is most famous for his principle of Le Chatelier's Principle, which states that if a system at equilibrium is disturbed, the system will shift to counteract the disturbance.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 53 out of 602. Before him are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, and Otto Diels. After him are Walther Nernst, Rodney Robert Porter, Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, and Kurt Alder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 7. Before him are Jack the Ripper, Guy de Maupassant, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Ferdinand Braun, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. After him are Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, and John Collier. Among people deceased in 1936, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 9. Before him are Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, Lu Xun, Róbert Bárány, and Grazia Deledda. After him are Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, Oswald Spengler, Ferdinand Tönnies, Grigory Zinoviev, and Fuad I of Egypt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 315 out of 6,770. Before him are Josquin des Prez (1450), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Jean Gabin (1904), Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775), Germaine de Staël (1766), and Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640). After him are Pierre Corneille (1606), Joseph Fouché (1759), Patrick Modiano (1945), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), Mireille Mathieu (1946), and Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Henry Louis Le Chatelier ranks 8. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), and Victor Grignard (1871). After him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), and Joseph Proust (1754).

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