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Jean Stas

1813 - 1891

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Jean Servais Stas (21 August 1813 – 13 December 1891) was a Belgian analytical chemist who accurately measured the atomic weight of carbon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Stas is the 406th most popular chemist (down from 329th in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 267th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jean Stas ranks 406 out of 602. Before him are Otto Ambros, Leo Sternbach, Julia Lermontova, Roy J. Plunkett, David Warren, and Rashad Khalifa. After him are Leonor Michaelis, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Luke Howard, Henry Roscoe, John William Draper, and Jan Czochralski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Jean Stas ranks 40. Before him are Pōmare IV, William Smith, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Adolph Kolping, and Stephen Heller. After him are Ludwig Leichhardt, Carl Jaenisch, József Eötvös, Alexander Parkes, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. Among people deceased in 1891, Jean Stas ranks 62. Before him are Paul de Lagarde, Konstantin Leontiev, William Windom, Karl Maximovich, Miklós Ybl, and Pōmare V. After him are Heinrich Graetz, Louis Paulsen, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, Theodor Aman, Sarah Childress Polk, and Laza Lazarević.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean Stas ranks 424 out of 1,190. Before him are Henry Carton de Wiart (1869), Lucien Buysse (1892), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (1922), Dries Mertens (1987), and Arthur De Greef (1862). After him are Peter Benoit (1834), Raoul Lambert (1944), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), and Lucas van Valckenborch (1535).

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Among CHEMISTS In Belgium

Among chemists born in Belgium, Jean Stas ranks 6. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Yves Chauvin (1930), Ernest Solvay (1838), Leo Baekeland (1863), and George Sarton (1884). After him are Gilbert Stork (1921).

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