Roberto Duarte Silva
Roberto Duarte da Silva (* 1837 in Ribeira Grande , Santo Antão , † 1889 in Paris ) was a Cape Verdean chemist.
Roberto Duarte Silva started as an apprentice in a pharmacy at the age of 14. Later he came to Lisbon. He worked there in the Farmácia Azevedo and studied at the Escola de Farmácia. For a few years he lived in Macau and Hong Kong , where he ran his own pharmacy. In 1863 he went to Paris . He completed his physics studies there and then worked in laboratories, among others with Charles Adolphe Wurtz and with Charles Friedel . At the same time he taught at the École des mines de Paris , the École centrale des arts et manufactures and the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris . After all, he was a scientist himself, especially in the field of organic chemistry . While traveling through Central Europe, he sought inspiration for what he considered to be too theoretical a French chemist training course.
Duarte Silva was awarded the Prix Jecker by the French Académie des Sciences in 1885 . In 1887 he became president of the Société Chimique de France . He was professor of the chemist Charles Lepierre , who settled in Portugal in 1888 at his suggestion.
literature
- Charles Lepierre: Centenario de Roberto Duarte Silva. Homenagem prestada ao mestre. In: Revista de chimica pura e applicada , 3rd series, Vol. 12, 1937, No. 3/4, pp. 97-107 (not evaluated).
Web links
- Santo Antão Celebrates 175th Anniversary of Birth of Renowned Chemist Roberto Duarte Silva. In: ASemana.publ.cv , March 1, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Fell: Discipline, Profession and Nation. The ideology of chemistry in France from the Second Empire to the inter-war period (= German-French Culture Library. Vol. 14). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-933240-91-3 , also dissertation, University of Regensburg, 1998, p. 66 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duarte Silva, Roberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duarte da Silva, Roberto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cape Verdean chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ribeira Grande , Santo Antão |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1889 |
| Place of death | Paris |