Philippe-Auguste Guye
Philippe-Auguste Guye (born June 12, 1862 in St. Christophe , Canton of Vaud , † March 27, 1922 in Geneva ) was a Swiss chemist.
Guye studied chemistry in Geneva with his doctorate in 1884 under Carl Graebe , whose assistant he was. In 1887 he was in Paris with Charles Friedel and in 1892 he completed his habilitation in Geneva, where he became a professor in 1895.
At first he was concerned with organic chemistry, after his stay in Paris he turned to physical chemistry . He developed methods of determining molecular mass in liquids and from 1903 checked the atomic masses for many elements (such as nitrogen, chlorine, silver) using more precise methods, published from 1914.
He also dealt with electrochemistry in collaboration with industry. With his brothers, he made attempts to synthesize nitrogen oxide in an electric arc .
In 1903 he founded the Journal de Chimie physique . On December 2, 1912, he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1913 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
In 1921 he received the Davy Medal .
literature
- Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Philippe-Auguste Guye at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
- ↑ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 21, 2019 (French).
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Philippe-Auguste Guye. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 22, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guye, Philippe-Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Christophe , Canton of Vaud |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1922 |
| Place of death | Geneva |