Eugène Millon

Eugène Auguste Nicolas Millon , called Eugène, (born April 24, 1812 in Châlons-sur-Marne , † October 22, 1867 in Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye ) was a French chemist and doctor.

Millon was initially an assistant teacher at the Collège Rollin in Paris and began his training as a military doctor and surgeon at the military hospital Val-de-Grâce in 1832 . In 1834 he finished his training and was then a military doctor in Lyon, Algeria and Metz. In 1836 he received his doctorate in medicine in Paris. In 1841 he became a chemistry professor at the Val de Grâce Hospital, but was transferred to the army hospital in Lille in 1847 , where he was barely able to do scientific research in chemistry. From 1850 to 1865 he was the chief pharmacist in the French military in Algeria.

He dealt with halogen oxides and halogen nitrides and first produced ethyl nitrate and iodine dioxide . With Jules Reise he tried to explain how catalysts work.

According to him, are Millon'sche reaction for protein detection (1849) and the Millon Base named.

In 1848 he found a method for determining urea from the amount of carbon dioxide that is released when reacted with nitric acid. He also dealt with the preservation of grain.

In 1845 he founded the magazine Annuaire de chimie, which he published with Jules Reise .

literature

• Annelore Fischer: Article by Eugène Auguste Nicolas Millon. In: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, 1989, p. 322.
• Pierre Malangeau: L'Oeuvre scientifique de Eugène Millon. In: Revue d'histoire de pharmacie , Volume 56, 1968, pp. 73-82, online .

Individual evidence

1. ^ L'Année Scientifique et Industrielle . Paris, 1868, p. 529 (Retrieved January 19, 2012).
2. ↑ Entry on Millon's reaction. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on January 19, 2012.
3. ↑ Entry on Millon's Base. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on January 19, 2012.