CHEMIST

Marc Delafontaine

1838 - 1911

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Marc Delafontaine (March 31, 1837/1838, Céligny, Switzerland–1911) was a Swiss chemist and spectroscopist who was involved in discovering and investigating some of the rare earth elements. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Delafontaine is the 530th most popular chemist (down from 514th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 551st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marc Delafontaine ranks 530 out of 602. Before him are Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Michael Behe, Darleane C. Hoffman, Eugen Baumann, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and Robert Jarvik. After him are Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Nikolai Menshutkin, Ida Freund, Friedrich Accum, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and Neil Bartlett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Marc Delafontaine ranks 96. Before him are Alexander Veselovsky, Duleep Singh, Cleveland Abbe, Gustav Neumann, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and Oswald Schmiedeberg. After him are Stefanos Skouloudis, Margaret E. Knight, Walter Buller, General Tom Thumb, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Joseph F. Smith. Among people deceased in 1911, Marc Delafontaine ranks 86. Before him are Eugene Burton Ely, Christian Lundeberg, Vassily Maximov, Carl Folcker, Carrie Nation, and Dezső Bánffy. After him are Morten Müller, William McGregor, Merritt Giffin, and Sam Dickson.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 555 out of 1,015. Before him are Bruno Heim (1911), Cesaro (1980), Heinz Schiller (1930), Béatrix Beck (1914), Georges Miez (1904), and Joël Dicker (1985). After him are Pascal Zuberbühler (1971), Max de Terra (1918), Albert Rösti (1967), Bibi Torriani (1911), Willy Kernen (1929), and Simon Ammann (1981).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Marc Delafontaine ranks 13. Before him are Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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