Charles Girard (chemist)

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Adam Charles Girard (born August 10, 1837 in Paris , † 1918 ) was a French chemist .

Life

Girard and Georges de Laire synthesized various dyes, initially fuchsine in the laboratory of Théophile-Jules Pelouze in 1860 , which was already patented, then fuchsine blue and fuchsine violet , produced by the Renard brothers in Lyon, and diphenylamine blue (1866). From 1872 to 1876 they had their own dye factory in Ris-Orangis near Paris.

Fonts

  • Traité de dérivés de la houille applicables à la production de matières colorantes, 1873
  • with Müntz: Les engrais, 1888 to 1891
  • La margarine 1889
  • Agenda du chimiste 1890

literature

  • Girard, Charles, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 978-3-817-11055-1 , p. 169f.
personal data
SURNAME Girard, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girard, Adam Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1918