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Mathieu Orfila

1787 - 1853

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Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (Catalan: Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger) (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, regarded as father of modern toxicology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mathieu Orfila is the 390th most popular chemist (down from 389th in 2019), the 929th most popular biography from Spain (up from 964th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Mathieu Orfila ranks 390 out of 602. Before him are Agnes Pockels, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Edward Calvin Kendall, Isabella Karle, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, and George Sarton. After him are Heinrich Rose, Nicolas Lemery, Fausto Elhuyar, Maclyn McCarty, Adolph Frank, and Ferdinand Reich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Mathieu Orfila ranks 28. Before him are Delphine LaLaurie, Friedrich Krupp, François Sudre, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Eliza Poe, and Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo. After him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William Etty, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Alexander Alyabyev, Ramón Freire, and Pellegrino Rossi. Among people deceased in 1853, Mathieu Orfila ranks 30. Before him are Andries Pretorius, Anastasio Bustamante, Lionel Kieseritzky, Hyacinth, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Juan Antonio Lavalleja. After him are Branko Radičević, George Onslow, Abigail Fillmore, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Mathieu Orfila ranks 929 out of 3,355. Before him are Jaume Huguet (1412), Gaspar de Borja y Velasco (1580), Juan Carlos Ferrero (1980), Luis Cernuda (1902), Toda of Pamplona (876), and Rodrigo de Jerez (1350). After him are Pelagius of Córdoba (912), Miguel Cabanellas (1872), Jimena Díaz (1046), Domènec Balmanya (1914), Francisco Herrera the Younger (1622), and Antonio Maura (1853).

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Among CHEMISTS In Spain

Among chemists born in Spain, Mathieu Orfila ranks 2. Before him are Andrés Manuel del Río (1764). After him are Fausto Elhuyar (1755), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), and Juan José Elhuyar (1754).

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