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Paul Ulrich Villard

1860 - 1934

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Paul Ulrich Villard (28 September 1860 – 13 January 1934) was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Ulrich Villard is the 277th most popular chemist (up from 363rd in 2019), the 1,433rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,715th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Ulrich Villard ranks 277 out of 602. Before him are Georg Brandt, Rudolph A. Marcus, Joachim Sauer, Joseph L. Goldstein, Ben Feringa, and Akira Yoshino. After him are Martin Karplus, Thomas Graham, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, André-Louis Debierne, Ascanio Sobrero, and Carl Auer von Welsbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Paul Ulrich Villard ranks 36. Before him are Marianne von Werefkin, Otto Jespersen, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Karl Denke, and Gustave Charpentier. After him are Mercedes of Orléans, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Waldemar Haffkine, Isaac Levitan, Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, and Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria. Among people deceased in 1934, Paul Ulrich Villard ranks 40. Before him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Pietro Gasparri, Vlado Chernozemski, Andrei Bely, Nicholas Marr, and Hayim Nahman Bialik. After him are Hakaru Hashimoto, Jakob Wassermann, Alexander von Kluck, Hermann Bahr, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, and Hubert Lyautey.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Ulrich Villard ranks 1,433 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis de Bonald (1754), Michèle Mouton (1951), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), Geneviève Grad (1944), Louis I, Count of Flanders (1304), and Émile Gaboriau (1832). After him are Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Bertrand Blier (1939), Philippe Starck (1949), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), and Pierre Mauroy (1928).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Paul Ulrich Villard ranks 27. Before him are Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802), Nicolas Leblanc (1742), and Luis Federico Leloir (1906). After him are André-Louis Debierne (1874), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), Bernard Courtois (1777), Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1755), Antoine Baumé (1728), and Alexandre Brongniart (1770).

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