Antoine Bussy

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Antoine Bussy

Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (born May 29, 1794 in Marseille , † February 1, 1882 in Paris ) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

life and work

After studying chemistry at the École de Pharmazie in Paris, he received his doctorate in chemistry in 1823 and later in medicine. He then taught as a professor of chemistry until 1874 at the École Superieure de Pharmacie in Paris, of which he was director, and at the Ecole Municipale Lavoisier.

In 1828 he isolated the element beryllium for the first time, independently of Friedrich Wöhler , by producing beryllium chloride and reducing it with potassium. He presented magnesium in the same way . In 1831 he received a large amount of magnesium for the first time. In organic chemistry he gave the name acetone ; he had obtained it from acetate . He also dealt with the chemistry of fats, isolated saponins from plants, examined mustard oil and isolated the potassium salt of myronic acid from the seeds of black mustard . In analysis he introduced U-tubes (1822) and in 1847 he used permanganate to determine arsenic (III) compounds. He used charcoal to decolorize color solutions.

Since 1850 he was a member of the Académie des sciences .

literature

  • Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel: About Glycium (Beryllium) and Magnium. In: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger, Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel (Hrsg.): Journal for Chemistry and Physics (Yearbook Chemistry and Physics) . tape 54 , no. 2 . Hall 1828, S. 241–243 ( online Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
  2. ^ Antoine Bussy: De quelques Produits nouveaux obtenus par l'action des Alcalis sur les Corps gras à une haute température . Mémoire présenté [...] le 2 septembre 1833. In: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, François Arago (ed.): Annales de Chimie et de Physique . tape 53 . Paris 1833, p. 398–412 (French, online in the HathiTrust Digital Library - for the naming of acetone see footnote on page 509 ): "ce principle de nomenclature, les esprits pyro-acétique [...] devront être désignés par les expressions de acétone"
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 30, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Bussy, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bussy, Antoine Alexandre Brutus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pharmacist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1882
Place of death Paris