Auguste André Thomas Cahours

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Auguste André Thomas Cahours

Auguste André Thomas Cahours (born October 2, 1813 in Paris , † March 17, 1891 ibid) was a French chemist.

life and work

From 1833 to 1835 he studied at the École polytechnique and was then a staff officer. From 1836 he worked at the laboratory of Eugène Chevreul and was then a preparator at the Museum of Natural History. In 1845 he became professor of chemistry at the École Polytechnique and at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. From 1851 he worked for Jean-Baptiste Dumas at the Sorbonne. In 1853 he was appointed guardian of the mint. Cahours became director of the French state mint, the Monnaie de Paris , in 1853 , replacing Auguste Laurent . In 1868 he became a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, the Académie des sciences . From 1867 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In December 1873 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

He worked in the field of dry wood distillation, on essential oils and discovered xylene in wood distillate in 1850 . He dealt with the concept of the radical created by Auguste Laurant .

Web links

Wikisource: Auguste Cahours  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Auguste André Thomas Cahours. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 4, 2015 .
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Auguste André Thomas Cahours. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 5, 2015 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Albert Gossauer: Structure and reactivity of biomolecules . Verl. Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-906390-29-1 , p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ History of chemical radicals: the part of Auguste Cahours (1813-1891). J. Fournier. Rev. Hist. Pharm. París, Enero de 2007; 54 (352): 453-74.
personal data
SURNAME Cahours, Auguste André Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1891
Place of death Paris