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Louis Jacques Thénard

1777 - 1857

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Louis Jacques Thénard (4 May 1777 – 21 June 1857) was a French chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Jacques Thénard is the 238th most popular chemist (down from 197th in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,198th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Chemist.

Louis Jacques Thénard is most famous for his work in organic chemistry, which led to the discovery of sulfuric acid.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 238 out of 602. Before him are Stanislao Cannizzaro, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, John Frederic Daniell, John Pople, Johann Josef Loschmidt, and Hideki Shirakawa. After him are Charles J. Pedersen, Hennig Brand, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Friedrich Sertürner, Nicolas Leblanc, and Walter Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 12. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, John Ross, Philipp Otto Runge, and Juliette Récamier. After him are Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Bernard Courtois, and Adélaïde d'Orléans. Among people deceased in 1857, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 15. Before him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, and Pierre-Jean de Béranger. After him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Alcide d'Orbigny, Gulab Singh, Johan Christian Dahl, Josef Ressel, and Mangal Pandey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 1,153 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Rivette (1928), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), Paul Landowski (1875), Balthus (1908), Joachim du Bellay (1522), and Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818). After him are Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Jean II Le Maingre (1366), Alain Poher (1909), Jean Rochefort (1930), Louise de Marillac (1591), and Étienne Bézout (1730).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Jacques Thénard ranks 23. Before him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), and Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800). After him are Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698).

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