Charles Prévost

Charles Prévost (born March 20, 1899 in Champlitte ; † July 11, 1983 ) was a French chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Life

Charles Prévost attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris . Towards the end of the First World War he was briefly drafted into the army. From 1919 he studied at the École normal supérieure , where his inclination was initially mathematics before he switched to chemistry. After graduating in chemistry, he worked in the laboratory of Robert Lespieau (1864-1947), professor of chemistry at the École normal supérieure in Paris (ENS), who broke through the theories of Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville of atomic theory in France had helped.

In 1928 he received his doctorate and was from 1929 Chargé de Cours at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Nancy and then Professor of Chemistry.

In 1936 he moved to Lille and in 1937 as Maître de conférence at the Sorbonne . During the German occupation of France in 1944, he had to go into hiding because in a lecture he had predicted the defeat of the Germans due to a lack of synthetic gasoline .

In 1953 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Sorbonne as the successor to Pauline Ramart-Lucas (1880–1953).

The Prévost hydroxylation and the Prévost-Woodward hydroxylation are named after him.

Honors

Charles Prévost was an officer in the Legion of Honor and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques . In 1934 he received the Prix ​​Leblanc of the Société chimique de France. In addition, he was twice awarded the Prix ​​Jecker of the Académie des sciences and the Prix ​​des Industries chimiques . Prévost was twice a candidate for admission to the Académie des sciences.

literature

• Laurence Lestel: Itinéraires de chimistes, 1857-2007. 150 ans de chimie en France avec les présidents de la SFC . Société française de chimie / EDP Sciences, Paris 2008. ISBN 978-2-86883-915-2 (Biographies of French chemists, therein about Prévost p. 445)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Bref historique du Laboratoire de chimie de l'ENS 24 , accessed on August 7, 2014.