CHEMIST

Louis Le Chatelier

1815 - 1873

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Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815 – 10 November 1873) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. His son was chemist Henry Louis Le Chatelier. His name is inscribed on the Eiffel tower. Le Chatelier and his wife Louise Madeleine Élisabeth Durand (1827–1902) had seven children. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Le Chatelier is the 434th most popular chemist (down from 379th in 2019), the 3,593rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,963rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 434 out of 602. Before him are Georges Urbain, Christian Gmelin, Jacques-Louis Soret, Albert Niemann, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, and Hans Tropsch. After him are William Gregor, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Juan José Elhuyar, Henri Braconnot, and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 51. Before him are Eduard August von Regel, Crawford Long, Temistocle Solera, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Alphonse Beau de Rochas, and John McDouall Stuart. After him are Johann Gottfried Piefke, Karl von Blaas, James B. Francis, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, and Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg. Among people deceased in 1873, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 50. Before him are Caterina Scarpellini, Malek Jahan Khanom, Bénédict Morel, Spyridon Trikoupis, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and Johann Jakob Kaup. After him are Auguste Couder, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Odilon Barrot, Paweł Strzelecki, and Eugène Flachat.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 3,593 out of 6,770. Before him are Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Duchess Sabine of Württemberg (1549), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Paulette Dubost (1910), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), and Philippe Streiff (1955). After him are Gérard Larcher (1949), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Joseph François Dupleix (1697), Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Christophe de Margerie (1951), and Bernard Lacombe (1952).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Le Chatelier ranks 51. Before him are Nicolas Lemery (1645), Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Claudine Picardet (1735), Georges Urbain (1872), and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795). After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès (1817), Henri Braconnot (1780), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Auguste Laurent (1807), Gaston Tissandier (1843), and Antoine Bussy (1794).

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