Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville

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Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville

Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville (born March 11, 1818 in Saint Thomas , West Indies , † July 1, 1881 in Boulogne-sur-Seine, today: Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French chemist.

Life

Sainte-Claire Deville was a professor in Besançon and Paris and in 1854 produced aluminum for the first time. He researched the platinum metals and, together with Friedrich Wöhler, discovered the crystallized boron and silicon . His brother was the geologist Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (1814–1876).

Since December 28, 1857 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1856 Deville was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , 1863 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and 1869 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . Since 1860 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

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  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 24, 2020 (French).
  2. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 209.
  3. Members of the previous academies. Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 8, 2015 .
  4. ^ Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville. In: Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 22, 2015 (in Russian).