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Louis Nicolas Vauquelin

1763 - 1829

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Louis Nicolas Vauquelin FRS(For) HFRSE (French pronunciation: [lwi nikɔla voklɛ̃]; 16 May 1763 – 14 November 1829) was a French pharmacist and chemist. He was the discoverer of chromium and beryllium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin is the 188th most popular chemist (down from 141st in 2019), the 855th most popular biography from France (up from 948th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Chemist.

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin is most famous for the discovery of the element beryllium.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin ranks 188 out of 602. Before him are Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Sidney Altman, Gerhard Herzberg, and Robert Huber. After him are Thomas A. Steitz, Peter D. Mitchell, Richard R. Schrock, Aaron Klug, Julius Axelrod, and Johann Deisenhofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin ranks 6. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Józef Poniatowski, Jean Paul, and Jacques Charles. After him are Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Kobayashi Issa, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Guillaume Brune, and Augustin Robespierre. Among people deceased in 1829, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, Humphry Davy, Thomas Young, Maria Anna Mozart, Paul Barras, and François-Joseph Gossec. After him are Mauro Giuliani, Alexander Griboyedov, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Adam Albert von Neipperg, and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin ranks 855 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755), Mylène Demongeot (1935), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), and François Darlan (1881). After him are Robert Curthose (1054), Paul Reynaud (1878), François Bayrou (1951), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), and Pierre Méchain (1744).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), Marcellin Berthelot (1827), and Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817). After him are Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), Luis Federico Leloir (1906), and Paul Ulrich Villard (1860).

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