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Nicolas Appert

1749 - 1841

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Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 – 1 June 1841) was a French confectioner and inventor who, in the early 19th century, invented airtight food preservation. Appert, known as the "father of food science", described his invention as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Appert is the 16th most popular inventor (up from 32nd in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from France (up from 369th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Inventor.

Nicolas Appert is most famous for inventing the process of canning food to preserve it.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nicolas Appert ranks 16 out of 426. Before him are Henry Ford, Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, and Louis Daguerre. After him are Rudolf Diesel, Cai Lun, Nicéphore Niépce, Karl Ferdinand Braun, George Stephenson, and Hans Lippershey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Nicolas Appert ranks 4. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Edward Jenner. After him are Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1841, Nicolas Appert ranks 1. After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart, Mikhail Lermontov, William Henry Harrison, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Caroline of Baden, George Green, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Friedrich Sertürner, Johan August Arfwedson, and Félix Savart.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Appert ranks 183 out of 6,770. Before him are Madame du Barry (1743), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Philip V of Spain (1683), Jean Racine (1639), Pope Innocent V (1225), and Joachim Murat (1767). After him are Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Jean-François Millet (1814), Louis VIII of France (1187), Rudolf Diesel (1858), and Georges Danton (1759).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Nicolas Appert ranks 3. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), and Louis Daguerre (1787). After him are Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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