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FRANZ CARL ACHARD (1753-1821)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ CARL ACHARD (1753-1821)  , Prussian chemist, was born at Berlin on the 28th of
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April 1753, and died at Kunern, in
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Silesia, on the 2oth of April 1821 . He was a
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pioneer in turning to
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practical account A . S . Marggraf's
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discovery of the presence of
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sugar in beetroot, and by the end of the 18th century he was producing considerable quantities of
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beet-sugar, though by a very imperfect
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process, at Kunern, on an estate which was granted him about 'Soo by the king of Prussia . There too he carried on a school of instruction in sugar-manufacture, which had an international reputation . For a time he was director of the physics class of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and he published several volumes of chemical and
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physical resea-ches, discovering among other things a method of working platinum .

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