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Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt

1731 - 1799

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Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (24 July 1731 – 17 October 1799) was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound. He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. This liquid is known as Cadet's fuming liquid and contains the two compounds cacodyl and cacodyl oxide. Cadet studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations and became a pharmacist at the Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt is the 470th most popular chemist (up from 494th in 2019), the 3,951st most popular biography from France (up from 4,393rd in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 470 out of 602. Before him are Peter Woulfe, Myrtle Bachelder, Theodor Curtius, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Anna Sundström, and Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen. After him are Donella Meadows, Edmond Frémy, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Hugo Erdmann, and K. C. Nicolaou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 17. Before him are Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Gaetano Pugnani, Christian Cannabich, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, William Cowper, and Dirk van der Aa. After him are Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Robert Treat Paine, Victor Louis, Gabriela Silang, Catharine Macaulay, and Johann August Ephraim Goeze. Among people deceased in 1799, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 32. Before him are Johann Hedwig, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, William Curtis, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Giuseppe Parini, and Johann Julius Walbaum. After him are William Withering, Francesco Mario Pagano, Alexander Bezborodko, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Vasily Bazhenov, and William Paca.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 3,951 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe Sarde (1948), Bernard Pivot (1935), Jacques Soustelle (1912), Sophie, Countess of Bar (1018), Hélène Vincent (1943), and Armand Penverne (1926). After him are Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Michael Vartan (1968), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), Auguste Duméril (1812), and Elizabeth of Nevers (1439).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ranks 59. Before him are Henri Braconnot (1780), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Auguste Laurent (1807), Gaston Tissandier (1843), Antoine Bussy (1794), and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville (1720). After him are Edmond Frémy (1814), Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (1814), Moungi Bawendi (1961), Pierre Adet (1763), and James Smithson (1765).

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