Paul Pascal

Paul Victor Henri Pascal (born July 4, 1880 in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise , † January 26, 1968 in Caen ) was a French chemist , mineralogist and metallurgist .

Life

Pascal studied at the École normal supérieure with the Agrégation in physics in 1905. He taught at a grammar school in Douai and married during this time. In 1908 he went to the Faculté de Sciences in Lille (the later University of Lille ), where he dealt with magnetochemistry . He received his doctorate in 1909 (Doctorat en Science) on organometallic complexes. His academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he manufactured military substances such as gunpowder and explosives. In 1919 he succeeded Alphonse Buisine (1856-1918) as professor of applied chemistry and director of the Institute for Chemistry in Lille. He taught metallurgy at the École Centrale de Lille ( Institut industriel du Nord ) and from 1927 at the École centrale in Paris. From 1929 to 1938 he was professor of general chemistry and chemistry of metals and minerals (Chimie minérale) at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris.

Pascal dealt with the chemistry of phosphate complexes with applications in industry and the military and was also a pioneer of magnetochemistry (there Pascal's constants in diamagnetism are named after him).

In 1966 he received the CNRS gold medal . A CNRS research center in Bordeaux is named after him. In 1945 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . He was also a commander in the Legion of Honor .

Fonts

• Synthèses et catalyses industrielles, fabrications minérales: leçons professées à la Faculté des sciences de Lille , Paris, J. Hermann, 1924, 2nd edition 1930
• Métallurgie et sidérurgie: Leçons professées à la faculté des sciences de Lille et à l'Institut industriel du Nord , Paris, J. Hermann, coll. Institut industriel du Nord, 1920–1921
• Chimie générale , 4 volumes, Masson 1949–1952
• Notions élémentaires de Chimie générale , Masson 1953
• Co-author and editor of Nouveau traité de chimie minérale , 31 volumes, Paris, Masson, from 1956 (new edition of the handbook Traité de Chimie minérale , Masson 1931–1934), by Pascal volume 20 Alliages métaliques
• Posthumously by A. Pacault and G. Pannetier: Compléments au Nouveau traité de chimie minérale. Masson, Paris, 1974

Web links

• Paul Pascal Paul Pascal in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laurence Lestel: Itinéraires de chimistes: 1857-2007, 150 ans de Chimie de France avec les présidents de la SFC. Published in: EDP Sciences, 2008, p. 411.