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Victor Grignard

1871 - 1935

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Francois Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871 – 13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. He also wrote some of his experiments in his laboratory notebooks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Grignard is the 48th most popular chemist (up from 55th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from France (up from 525th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Chemist.

Victor Grignard was a chemist who is most famous for developing the Grignard reaction. The Grignard reaction is a chemical reaction in which an alkyl or aryl halide reacts with an alkali metal to form an organomagnesium compound.

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Among chemists, Victor Grignard ranks 48 out of 602. Before him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Alfred Werner, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. After him are Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Walther Nernst.

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Among people born in 1871, Victor Grignard ranks 7. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, Marcel Proust, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Scriabin, Friedrich Ebert, and Grazia Deledda. After him are Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, Albert Lebrun, and Baroness Mary Vetsera. Among people deceased in 1935, Victor Grignard ranks 9. Before him are Arthur Henderson, John Macleod, Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Dreyfus, T. E. Lawrence, and Paul Signac. After him are Emmy Noether, Alban Berg, Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, and Charles Richet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 306 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Foch (1851), Alfred Werner (1866), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Claude Lorrain (1600), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845). After him are Gilles de Rais (1405), Robert II of France (972), Josquin des Prez (1450), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Jean Gabin (1904), and Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Victor Grignard ranks 7. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), and Alfred Werner (1866). After him are Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), Jacques Monod (1910), and Claude Louis Berthollet (1748).

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