Augustine Damiens

Augustin Damiens (born July 10, 1886 in Vis-en-Artois , Département Pas-de-Calais , † August 3, 1946 in Paris ) was a French chemist ( inorganic chemistry ).

Damiens studied from 1907 at the École Supérieur de Pharmacie in Paris and received his doctorate there in 1914. From 1910 he was in Paul Lebeau's laboratory at the Sorbonne , from 1914 as an assistant professor. From 1918 he was professor of applied chemistry at the École spécial d'architecture (which he was until 1935) and from 1920 professor at the École normal supérieure in Saint-Cloud (which he was until 1938) and from 1929 he was professor of inorganic Chemistry at the Sorbonne. In addition, he was from 1934 to 1937 Professor of Chemistry at the École normal supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses.

He improved gas analysis with Lebeau, dealt with the chemistry of rare earths and from 1920 with tellurium and its halogen compounds. He was the first to present tellurium iodide and explained the then open question of the allotropy of tellurium (under normal conditions there is only one crystalline and one inconsistent amorphous form). He investigated the toxicology of organic bromine compounds and from 1926 the chemistry of fluorine (compounds with other halogens and carbon). Damiens also worked on improving chemical nomenclature.

Fonts

• Les Isotopes 1923
• Halogènes et composés oxygènes du chlore, 1939
• Cours de chimie minérale, 2 volumes 1941

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 107