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SCHUTZENBERGER, PAUL (1829–1897)

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SCHUTZENBERGER, See also:PAUL (1829–1897) , See also:French chemist, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:December 1829 at See also:Strassburg, where his See also:father Georges See also:Frederic Schutzenberger (1799–1859) was See also:professor of See also:law, and his See also:uncle See also:Charles Schutzenberger (1809–1881) professor of chemical See also:medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated M.D. at Strassburg in 1855, but his interests See also:lay in See also:physical and chemical See also:science. In 1853 he went to See also:Paris as preparateur to J. F. Persoz (1805–1868), professor of See also:chemistry at the See also:Conservatoire See also:des Arts et Metiers. A See also:year later he was entrusted with a course of chemical instruction at See also:Mulhausen, and he remained in that See also:town till 1865 as professor at the Ecole Superieure des Sciences. He then returned to Paris as assistant to A. V. See also:Balard at the See also:College de See also:France, in 1876 he succeeded that chemist in the See also:chair of chemistry, and in 1882 he became directing professor at the municipal Ecole de Physique et de Chimie. The two latter chairs he held together until his See also:death, which happened on the 26th of See also:June 1897 at Mezy, See also:Seine et See also:Oise. During the See also:period he spent at Miilhausen, Schutzenberger paid See also:special See also:attention to See also:industrial chemistry, particularly in connexion with colouring matters, but he also worked at See also:general and biological chemistry which subsequently occupied the greater See also:part of his See also:time. He is known for a See also:long See also:series of researches on the constitution of alkaloids and of the albuminoid bodies, and for the preparation of several new series of See also:platinum compounds and of hyposulphurous See also:acid, H2S204.

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life he adopted the view that the elements have been formed by some See also:process of condensation from one primordial substance of extremely small atomic See also:weight, and he expressed the conviction that atomic weights within narrow limits are variable and modified according to the physical conditions in which a See also:compound is formed. His publications include Chimie appliquee a -la physiologic et d la pathologic animate (1863); Traite des matieres colorantes (1867); See also:Les Fermentations (1875), which was translated into See also:German, See also:Italian and See also:English; and an excellent Traite de chimie generale in seven volumes (188o-1894).

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