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PELOUZE, THEOPHILE JULES (1807-1867)

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PELOUZE, THEOPHILE JULES (1807-1867)

PELOUZE, See also:
THEOPHILE
THEOPHILE JULES (1807-1867) , See also:

French chemist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Valognes, in See also:

NORMANDY

Normandy, on the 26th (or 13th) of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1807. His See also:

FATHER

father, Edmond Pelouze (d. 1847), was an See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial chemist and the author of several technical handbooks. The son, after spending some See also:

time in a See also:

PHARMACY

pharmacy at La Fere, acted as laboratory assistant to See also:

Gay-Lussac and J. L. Lassaigne (1800-1859) at See also:

Paris from 1827 to 1829. In 1830 he was appointed See also:

ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

chemistry at See also:

LILLE

Lille, but returning to Paris next See also:

YEAR

year became repetiteur, and subsequently professor, at the Ecole Polytechnique. He also held the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry at the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

France, and in 1833 became assayer to the See also:

mint and in 1848 See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission See also:

DES

des Monnaies. After the coup d'etat in 1851 he resigned his appointments, but continued to conduct a laboratory-school he had started in 1846. He died in Paris on the 1st of See also:

JUNE

June 1867. Though Pelouze made no See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery of outstanding importance, he was a busy investigator, his See also:

WORK

work including researches on See also:

SALICIN, SALICINUM, C13H1807

salicin, on beetroot See also:

SUGAR

sugar, on various organic acids—gallic, malic, tartaric, butyric, lactic, &c.—on oenanthic See also:

ETHER, (C2H5)2O

ether (with See also:

LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON, BARON (1803-1873)

Liebig), on the nitrosulphates, on See also:

GUN

gun-See also:

cotton, and on the See also:

composition and manufacture of See also:

glass. He also carried out determinations of the atomic weights of several elements, and with E.

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FREMY, EDMOND (1814–1894)

Fremy, published Traite de chimie generale (1847-1850); Abrege de chimie (1848); and Notions generates de chimie (18J3).

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