Jacques-Louis Soret
Jacques-Louis Soret (born June 30, 1827 in Geneva ; † May 13, 1890 ibid) was a Swiss chemist and physicist.
Soret taught chemistry from 1873 and medical physics from 1876 at the University of Geneva . There he discovered the element holmium in 1878 together with Marc Delafontaine . In 1890 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
He first described the structure of ozone as a three-atom modification of oxygen .
The Soret band , a strong absorption in the UV / VIS spectrum of the porphyrins , is named after him.
His son is the physicist and chemist Charles Soret (1854–1904).
literature
Web links
- Biographical note ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 4, 2020 (French).
- ^ Jacques-Louis Soret: Analyze spectrale: Sur le specter d'absorption du sang dans la partie violette et ultra-violette . In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . 97, 1883, pp. 1269-1270 ..
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soret, Jacques-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1890 |
| Place of death | Geneva |