Jules Piccard

Jules Piccard (born September 20, 1840 in Lausanne , † April 11, 1933 there ) was a Swiss chemist .

After the death of Christian Friedrich Schönbein , Jules Piccard became professor of chemistry at the University of Basel in 1868 (until 1908). His scientific research concerned food chemistry. One of his employees was Christoph Friedrich Goppelsroeder . Friedrich Krafft was his assistant between 1875 and 1877 . From 1876 to 1884 Piccard was also a cantonal chemist in Basel .

He drew attention to himself when he had the first telephone installed in Basel. His brother Paul Piccard was an engineer and entrepreneur. Jules Piccard married Hélène Halthoff, with whom he had four children - two of them were Auguste , who would become known worldwide as a physicist and stratospheric aviator, and his twin brother Jean , chemist and inventor.

Fonts

• Communications from the chemical laboratory of the University of Basel.
• with Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff : Festschrift for the inauguration of the Bernoullianum, the institute for physics, chemistry and astronomy in Basel on June 2, 1874.
  • About tectochrysin
  • About chrysin and its derivatives

Web links

• The Piccard Family (PDF; 142 kB) - Finding book for the family papers in the Library of Congress
• Hermann Wichers : Piccard, Jules. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .