Armand Gautier
Armand Gautier (born September 23, 1837 in Narbonne , † July 27, 1920 in Cannes ) was a French chemist.
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Gautier was the son of a doctor and decided to study chemistry in the chemical laboratory of the Medical Faculty in Montpellier , where he went to Paris to see Charles Adolphe Wurtz . He worked at the chemical laboratory of the Medical Faculty in Paris, became head of the laboratory for biological medicine in 1874 and professor in 1884. In 1912 he retired.
In 1866 he isolated isonitriles for the first time in the conversion of silver cyanide with methyl iodide in the Wurtz laboratory, with which he received his doctorate in 1869. He later dealt with biochemistry and forensic-medical topics (cadaveric poisons, arsenic spread in tissue).
He was president of the Academie de Médicine, 1876, 1891 and 1906 president of the Société chimique de Paris and member of the Académie des sciences .
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautier, Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Narbonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1920 |
| Place of death | Cannes |