Gustave Chancel

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The grave of Gustave Chancel on the Cimetière protestant in Montpellier.

Gustave Charles Bonaventure Chancel (born January 18, 1822 in Loriol-sur-Drôme , † August 5, 1890 in Montpellier ) was a French chemist .

life and work

After Chancel graduated from the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris , he went to the laboratory of Théophile-Jules Pelouze . In 1848 he became, as the successor to Charles Frédéric Gerhardt , Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Science in Montpellier. Chancel published the work Precis d'analyse chimique qualitative together with Gerhardt in 1855 . In Montpellier he became doyen (dean) in 1865 and rector of the academy in 1879 . From 1880 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Chancel developed methods for determining vapor density and for qualitative analysis .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Itinéraires de chimistes , by Laurence Lestel, Société Française de Chimie (French.) . books.google.de. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
  2. ^ A b Charles Frederic Gerhardt, Gustav Charles Bonaventure's Chancel: Precis d'analysis chimique qualitative. Masson, Paris 1855.