Théophile-Jules Pelouze

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Théophile-Jules Pelouze

Théophile-Jules Pelouze (born February 26, 1807 in Valognes , † May 31, 1867 in Paris ) was a French chemist .

His father was the chemical industrialist Edmond Pelouze.

Pelouze worked with Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , where he was an assistant, and whose successor at the École polytechnique he was from 1839 to 1845. Pelouze also carried out projects with Justus Liebig . He taught at the Collège de France , at the "Muséum d'histoire naturelle" and from 1830 at the University of Lille , where he studied sugar beet . Pelouze also developed an explosive . Pelouze experimented with the gun cotton discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein . The discoverer of nitroglycerin Ascanio Sobrero was his pupil (as was Alfred Nobel ). He determined the atomic weight of several elements with very high accuracy.

In 1837 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences . From 1851 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and from 1856 of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1858 he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He is immortalized on the Eiffel Tower, see: The 72 names on the Eiffel Tower .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Derek Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 134
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Théophile-Jules Pelouze. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 20, 2015 .
  3. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Théophile-Jules Pelouze. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 187.
personal data
SURNAME Pelouze, Théophile-Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Valognes
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1867
Place of death Paris