CHEMIST

Juan José Elhuyar

1754 - 1796

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Juan José Elhuyar Lubize (15 June 1754 – 20 September 1796) was a Spanish chemist and mineralogist, who was best known for being first to isolate tungsten with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783. He was born in Logroño, in northern Spain and died in Santafé de Bogotá, New Granada (present-day Colombia) at 42. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan José Elhuyar is the 438th most popular chemist (up from 440th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,222nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 438 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Hans Tropsch, Louis Le Chatelier, William Gregor, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, and Felix Hoppe-Seyler. After him are Henri Braconnot, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Michael Grätzel, Johan Kjeldahl, Carl Remigius Fresenius, and Anders Jahan Retzius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 40. Before him are Claude François de Malet, Nikolay Rumyantsev, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Nicolas Baudin, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, and Peter Winter. After him are Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Hipólito Ruiz López, Banastre Tarleton, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, and Ivan Martos. Among people deceased in 1796, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 24. Before him are Velu Nachiyar, Prince Louis Charles of Prussia, Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, William Chambers, Philip Carteret, and François Séverin Marceau. After him are Adam Naruszewicz, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, David Allan, Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Ulrika Pasch, and Anthony Wayne.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 1,145 out of 3,355. Before him are Jorge Oteiza (1908), Pilar Lorengar (1928), Carlos Alcaraz (2003), Rodri (1934), Victoria Kent (1891), and Santi Cazorla (1984). After him are Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862), Luis Rodríguez (1948), Josep Escolà (1914), Francisco J. Ayala (1934), Fernando Savater (1947), and Concepción Arenal (1820).

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Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Juan José Elhuyar ranks 5. Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río (1764), Mathieu Orfila (1787), Fausto Elhuyar (1755), and Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820).

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