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Nicolas Leblanc

1742 - 1806

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Nicolas Leblanc (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ləblɑ̃]; December 6, 1742 – January 16, 1806) was a French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Leblanc is the 243rd most popular chemist (down from 187th in 2019), the 1,166th most popular biography from France (down from 1,150th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Chemist.

Nicolas Leblanc is most famous for his discovery of the first chemical process to produce soda ash.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 243 out of 602. Before him are Hideki Shirakawa, Louis Jacques Thénard, Charles J. Pedersen, Hennig Brand, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Friedrich Sertürner. After him are Walter Gilbert, Arieh Warshel, Henri Victor Regnault, Luis Federico Leloir, Mario J. Molina, and Kary Mullis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 9. Before him are Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Yemelyan Pugachev, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, James Wilson, and Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar. After him are David Bushnell, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Dositej Obradović, Pōmare I, and François Laurent d'Arlandes. Among people deceased in 1806, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 16. Before him are Michael Haydn, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Johann Christoph Adelung, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, and Utamaro. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Michel Adanson, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, and Mungo Park.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 1,166 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Marc Nattier (1685), Lionel Jospin (1937), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), and Leonard of Noblac (496). After him are Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762), Édouard Lucas (1842), André Bazin (1918), Marion Cotillard (1975), Stéphane Grappelli (1908), and Kylian Mbappé (1998).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Nicolas Leblanc ranks 25. Before him 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). After him are Luis Federico Leloir (1906), Paul Ulrich Villard (1860), André-Louis Debierne (1874), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Bernard Courtois (1777), and Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755).

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