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Jean-Baptiste Dumas

1800 - 1884

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Jean Baptiste André Dumas (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɑ̃dʁe dyma]; 14 July 1800 – 10 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. He also developed a method for the analysis of nitrogen in compounds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste Dumas is the 203rd most popular chemist (down from 146th in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from France (up from 982nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Chemist.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas was a French chemist who first isolated the element bromine in 1825.

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Among chemists, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 203 out of 602. Before him are Paul L. Modrich, Clara Immerwahr, Arthur Kornberg, Herbert C. Brown, Wallace Carothers, and Donald J. Cram. After him are Robert H. Grubbs, Robert F. Furchgott, Georg Ernst Stahl, Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, and James Dewar.

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Among people born in 1800, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 10. Before him are John Edward Gray, Millard Fillmore, Emperor Ninkō, France Prešeren, Charles Goodyear, and Henry Fox Talbot. After him are John Brown, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Nelson Darby, James Clark Ross, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and Jacques Paul Migne. Among people deceased in 1884, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 11. Before him are Marie Taglioni, Hermann Kolbe, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Paul Morphy, Johann Gustav Droysen, and Charles Adolphe Wurtz. After him are Marie Bashkirtseff, Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal, Fanny Elssler, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Alfred Brehm, and Karl Richard Lepsius.

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Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 937 out of 6,770. Before him are René Clément (1913), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Charles Garnier (1825), and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802). After him are Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), Lucile Randon (1904), Didier Deschamps (1968), Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703), and Louise Michel (1830).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jean-Baptiste Dumas ranks 22. Before him are Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763). After him are Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), and André-Louis Debierne (1874).

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