Jean Auguste Houzeau

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Jean Auguste Houzeau (born March 3, 1829 in Elbeuf , Département Seine-Maritime , † February 17, 1911 in Rouen ) was a French chemist.

From 1850 he was a preparator and from 1852 he worked at the Agronomic Institute in Versailles and at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers . In 1858 he became professor of chemistry at the École Supérieure des Sciences et des Lettres in Rouen and at the École d'agriculture de Dept. de la Seine-inferieure .

In 1858 he detected ozone in the air. This was surprising, as the discoverer Christian Friedrich Schönbein had shown that it is a strong oxidizing agent and that it is used up quickly. Houzeau wrote numerous papers on the representation of ozone and was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris since 1887 .

Publications

  • Détermination de la valeur des engrais , Rouen, Deshays, 1875
  • Histoire de la houille et de ses dérivés , Rouen, Lapierre, 1863
  • Instruction sur l'emploi de l'azotimètre pour le tirage des engrais azoté , Paris, Dupont, 1874
  • Le Marc de pommes, sa composition, son emploi, sa conservation , Paris, Bellechasse, 1887
  • Organization de la station agronomique de Rouen , Rouen, Chaix, 1863
  • Ozone , Mesnil (Eure), Firmin-Didot, 1866
  • Rapport sur les champs de demonstration , Rouen, Cagniard, 1888–1899
  • Station agronomique de la Seine-Inférieure. Fruits à pressoir et marcs de pommes et de poires, leur emploi dans la ferme: rations nouvelles pour suppléer au manque de fourrage , Rouen, Cagniard, 1893
  • Sur la composition de quelques fumiers, et sur un moyen simple d'apprécier dans la pratique agricole la composition des fumiers ainsi que leur valeur relative en argent , Paris, Chamerot, 1888

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cths.fr: HOUZEAU Auguste .
  2. ^ Mordecai B. Rubin: THE HISTORY OF OZONE. THE SCHÖNBEIN PERIOD, 1839-1868 ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 421 kB); In: Bull. Hist. Chem., VOLUME 26, Number 1 (2001). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scs.uiuc.edu
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 28, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Houzeau, Jean Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houzeau, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbeuf
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1911
Place of death Rouen