Charles-Bernard Desormes

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Charles-Bernard Desormes (born June 3, 1777 in Dijon , † August 30, 1862 in Verberie , Département Oise ) was a French chemist and physicist.

Desormes studied from its foundation in 1794 at the École polytechnique and then worked there as a tutor (under Guyton de Morveau , until 1804) and taxidermist. In 1801 he met Nicolas Clément (1779–1841), with whom he worked closely until 1824 and who became his son-in-law and friend. With Clément and Joseph Montgolfier , he founded a chemical factory in Verberie in 1804 and therefore left the École polytechnique. He was several times mayor of Verberie (first from 1821).

In 1819 he and Clément determined the relationship between the specific heats of gases. Both also continued the studies of iodine compounds begun by Bernard Courtois (published in 1813). They determined the chemical reactions in the lead chamber process for the production of sulfuric acid and determined the composition of carbon disulfide and carbon monoxide . In 1826 they described the aerodynamic paradox .

Apart from Clément, he published only three works from 1801 to 1804 on voltaic columns , shortly after they became known in France.

From 1808 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1819 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . His close colleague Clément (who was essentially self-taught) was denied this honor.

After the revolution of 1830 he turned to politics, became conseiller général of the Oise Department , defeated in 1834, 1837 and 1842 as a candidate for the National Assembly for Oise, into which he was elected in 1848. He founded the magazine Revue de l´Oise (later Progrès de l´Oise).

Fonts

  • Considérations sur les routes en général et sur celles du département de l'Oise, Senlis, 1834
  • Des impôts, Senlis, 1851

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Charles-Bernard Desormes' membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 25, 2017.