Paul Vieille
Paul Marie Eugène Vieille (born September 2, 1854 in Paris , † January 14, 1934 there ) was a French chemist and inventor .
Together with his college friend Marcellin Berthelot , he studied the physics of shock waves in 1881 . Vieille also researched the chemical stabilization of gun cotton so that it could be used as a propellant . To do this, he used nitrocellulose , which was suspended in a mixture of ether and alcohol . The result was a chemically stable, gelatinous mass. Thus he managed the development of smokeless gunpowder , which he Poudre B called. In 1904 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences in Paris.
Web links
- Article and picture by Vieille on schoolnet.co.uk, accessed April 19, 2008
literature
- Peter OK Krehl: History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact: A Chronological and Biographical Reference . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-30421-0 , pp. 1187–1189 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Louis Médard: L'œuvre scientifique de Paul Vieille (1854-1934) / The scientific work of Paul Vieille (1854-1934) . In: Revue d'histoire des sciences . tape 47 , no. 3 , 1994, p. 381–404 , doi : 10.3406 / rhs.1994.1211 (French, free full text).
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Vieille. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed December 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Brenda J. Buchanan (Ed.): Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History . Routledge, 2006, ISBN 978-1-351-93190-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vieille, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vieille, Paul Marie Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1934 |
| Place of death | Paris |