Paul Hautefeuille
Paul Hautefeuille (born December 2, 1836 in Étampes , † December 8, 1902 in Paris ) was a French mineralogist , chemist and doctor . He was also a member of the Académie des Sciences and professor at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris . He has achieved success in synthesizing various crystals in the laboratory.
biography
Hautefeuille was born the son of a notary based in Étampes. During his school career, he attended the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, from 1855 the local École centrale , an engineering school. On this he was discovered by Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Henri Sainte-Claire Deville . In 1865 he received his doctorate in medicine and physics. His doctoral thesis in physics dealt with the synthesis of titanium-containing metals . In the same year he was hired by the school as a lecturer for mechanics, later for industrial chemistry. Then he was given the job of giving metallurgy lessons.
He took a job at the laboratory of the École normal supérieure , where he replaced Charles Friedel as a lecturer in mineralogy, and from 1876 to 1885 he was vice director of the local chemistry laboratory. In 1885 he succeeded Friedel as professor of mineralogy at the Faculté des sciences de Paris. He then became head of the chemistry laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études . In 1895 he was elected to the Department of Mineralogy at the Académie des Sciences .
His scientific work dealt primarily with mineral chemistry, where he worked with Louis Joseph Troost (1825–1911); furthermore with polymerisation , the solubility of hydrogen and carbon in iron as well as with phosphates and the liquefaction of gaseous mixtures. With the help of catalysts , he succeeded in synthetically producing many minerals, such as emeralds .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hautefeuille, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mineralogist, chemist and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Etampes |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1902 |
| Place of death | Paris |