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Louis Camille Maillard

1878 - 1936

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Louis Camille Maillard ( my-YAR; French: [lwi kamij majaʁ] ; 4 February 1878 – 12 May 1936) was a French physician and chemist. He made important contributions to the study of kidney disorders. He also became known for the "Maillard reaction", the chemical reaction which he described in 1912, by which amino acids and sugars react in foods via contact with fats, giving a browned, flavorful surface to everything from bread and seared steaks to toasted marshmallows. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Camille Maillard is the 327th most popular chemist (up from 349th in 2019), the 1,976th most popular biography from France (up from 2,599th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Camille Maillard ranks 327 out of 602. Before him are Tapputi, Alexander Butlerov, Charles Friedel, Roger Y. Tsien, Torbern Bergman, and Théophile-Jules Pelouze. After him are Kazimierz Fajans, Eilhard Mitscherlich, Tim Hunt, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Frederick Abel, and François-Marie Raoult.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Louis Camille Maillard ranks 63. Before him are Richard Sheldon, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Eino Leino, Paul Troost, James Oliver Curwood, and Angelica Balabanoff. After him are Herbert Chapman, Yosano Akiko, Paul Pelliot, Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, and Hans Ledwinka. Among people deceased in 1936, Louis Camille Maillard ranks 67. Before him are Henri de Régnier, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Billy Mitchell, Sophie, Princess of Albania, Mikhail Tomsky, and Ramón del Valle-Inclán. After him are Saitō Makoto, Martin Lowry, Nestor Lakoba, Richard Hauptmann, Sergey Kamenev, and Hans Poelzig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Camille Maillard ranks 1,976 out of 6,770. Before him are Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Louise de Coligny (1555), André Charles Boulle (1642), Raoul Salan (1899), and Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807). After him are Fredegund (545), Michel Debré (1912), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Anne Geneviève de Bourbon (1619), Antoine de Montchrestien (1575), and Cabu (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Camille Maillard ranks 37. Before him are Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Antoine Baumé (1728), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), Anselme Payen (1795), Charles Friedel (1822), and Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807). After him are François-Marie Raoult (1830), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Paul Héroult (1863), Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737), and Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847).

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