Robert Hippolyte de Forcrand

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Robert Hippolyte de Forcrand , also Hippolyte Forcrand de Coiselet , (born August 31, 1856 in Paris , † April 20, 1933 in Nice ) was a French chemist .

Life

De Forcrand studied in Lyon , where he was a chemical taxidermist. In 1882 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne and was assistant to Marcelin Berthelot at the Collège de France . In 1884 he was Maître de conférence in Caen and from 1887 to 1928 he was a professor (first Chargé de cours and, after establishing a second chair in 1901, professor) at the University of Montpellier .

At first he dealt with thermochemistry and from the mid-1880s on the oxides of the alkaline earth and alkali metals, clarifying the position of lithium in the periodic table. Later he dealt with gas hydrates (including hydrates of hydrogen sulfide and organic halides, conditions of formation, crystallization and dissociation of gas hydrates) and in 1923 proved the existence of hydrates of the noble gases. In 1907 he was among the first to give lectures in physical chemistry in France.

In 1879 he received the Prix Herpin. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Montpellier (1891) and a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences (1903).

Fonts

  • Recherches sur les hydrates sulfhydrés, Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1882 (dissertation)
  • Chimie légale: Guide de l'expert-chimiste, Paris: H. Dunod, E. Pinart 1912
  • Potassium, Paris: Masson
  • Cours de chimie: à l'usage des étudiants PCN et SPC, Gauthier-Villars, 2nd edition, 2 volumes, 1918/19

He was a collaborator in Edmond Frémy's Encyclopédie chimique , for example with Rousseau on sodium, rubidium and cesium.

literature

  • Forcrand de Coiselet, Hippolyte Robert, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 978-3-817-11055-1 , p. 150f.

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personal data
SURNAME Forcrand, Robert Hippolyte de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forcrand de Coiselet, Hippolyte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1933
Place of death Nice