Pierre Jolibois
Médard Pierre Jolibois (born May 23, 1884 in Paris , † February 9, 1954 ) was a French chemist.
Jolibois studied from 1903 at the École polytechnique . He then joined the Laboratory for General Chemistry at the Sorbonne in 1906 , headed by Henry Le Chatelier , where he received his doctorate in 1910 on the allotropy of phosphorus . During the First World War he served as battery chief in the artillery and from 1917 in a commission for chemistry. In this function he also inspected chemical factories in Germany in Ludwigshafen in 1919 (and after the Second World War he also took over the supervision of the control of IG Farben, which had been defeated at the time, from the French side in 1948 ). In 1913 he was a repetitor for chemistry at the École Polytechnique. In 1921 he became a professor of general and analytical chemistry at the École des Mines .
He dealt with the organometallic chemistry of magnesium, hydrate forms of calcium sulfate , phosphorus chemistry (including the allotropy of phosphorus and arsenic), fertilizers, chemical phenomena associated with gas discharge in dilute gases and electrochemistry.
In 1938 he received the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal . In 1935 he became President of the French Chemical Society (succeeding Eugène Darmois ) and he was President of the Inorganic Chemistry Section (Chimie minérale) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. In 1944 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .
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| SURNAME | Jolibois, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jolibois, Médard Pierre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1954 |