André job

André Job (born April 2, 1870 in Lunéville , † August 16, 1928 in Bellevue ) was a French chemist .

Life

Job studied from 1891 at the École normal supérieure and received his doctorate in Paris in 1899. He was a professor at the University of Rennes and in the same year professor of industrial chemistry at the Sorbonne. In 1903 he became professor in Toulouse and from 1908 professor of general chemistry at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris. He also taught at the Sorbonne from 1925.

He dealt with the chemistry of cerium and its oxides and of other lanthanoids , with organometallic compounds such as chromium carbonyl compounds.

In 1927 he founded the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique with Jean Baptiste Perrin and André Mayer.

Fonts

• La mobilité chimique 1922
• The réactions intermédiaires dans la catalyse 1925

literature

• Job, André in: Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists. Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 978-3-817-11055-1 , p. 224.