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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

1758 - 1836

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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, later Countess von Rumford, (20 January 1758 in Montbrison, Loire, France – 10 February 1836) was a French chemist and noblewoman. Madame Lavoisier's first husband was the chemist and nobleman Antoine Lavoisier. She acted as his laboratory companion, using her linguistic skills to write up his work and bring it to an international audience. She also played a pivotal role in the translation of several scientific works, and was instrumental to the standardization of the scientific method. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier is the 172nd most popular chemist (down from 137th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from France (up from 925th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Chemist.

Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier is most famous for being the wife of Antoine Lavoisier, a chemist who discovered the law of conservation of mass.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 172 out of 602. Before her are Willard Libby, John E. Walker, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Derek Barton, and Richard F. Heck. After her are Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, Max Perutz, Robert Curl, and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 9. Before her are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Noah Webster, James Monroe, André Masséna, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Emperor Go-Momozono. After her are Kamehameha I, Franz Joseph Gall, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, John Armstrong Jr., Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, and Osman Pazvantoğlu. Among people deceased in 1836, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 9. Before her are Letizia Ramolino, James Madison, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. After her are William Godwin, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Anthony of Saxony, Maria Malibran, Maria Cristina of Savoy, and Claude-Louis Navier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 797 out of 6,770. Before her are Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848), Paul Broca (1824), Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (1490), Margaret of Provence (1221), Louis II of Anjou (1377), and Charles II of Navarre (1332). After her are Charles, Duke of Vendôme (1489), Eric Cantona (1966), Bernard Gui (1261), Isabella of Angoulême (1188), Louis-Gabriel Suchet (1770), and Jacques Audiard (1952).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier ranks 18. Before her are Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), and Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838). After her are Marcellin Berthelot (1827), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), and Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802).

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