EDMOND See also:

• EDMOND FREMY (1814–1894)

FREMY (1814–1894)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles on the 29th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1814 . Entering See also:

• GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
• GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852)
• GAY, WALTER (1856– )

Gay-Lussac's laboratory in 1831, he became preparateur at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1834 and at the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France in 1837 . His next See also:

• POST

post was that of repetileur at the Ecole Polytechnique, where in 1846 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, and in 185o he succeeded Gay-Lussac in the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, of which he was director, in See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession to M . E . See also:

• CHEVREUL, MICHEL EUGENE (1786-1889)

Chevreul, from 1879 to 1891 . He died at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 3rd of February 1894 . His See also:

• WORK

work included investigations of osmic See also:

• ACID (from the Lat. root ac-, sharp; acere, to be sour)

acid, of the ferrates, stannates, plumbates, &c., and of See also:

• OZONE

ozone, attempts to obtain See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• FLUORINE (symbol F, atomic weight 19)

fluorine by the See also:

• ELECTROLYSIS (formed from Gr. Xbety, to loosen)

electrolysis of fused fluorides, and the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid and of a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of acides sulphazotes, the precise nature of which See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long remained a See also:

• MATTER

matter of discussion . He also studied the colouring matters of leaves and See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone, cerebral matter and other See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal substances, and the processes of See also:

• FERMENTATION

fermentation, in regard to the nature of which he was an opponent of See also:

• PASTEUR, LOUIS (1822-1895)

Pasteur's views . Keenly alive to the importance of the technical applications of chemistry, he devoted See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention as a teacher to the training of See also:

• INDUSTRIAL

industrial chemists . In this See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field he contributed to our knowledge of the manufacture of See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel, sulphuric acid, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass and See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, and in particular worked at the saponification of fats with sulphuric acid and the utilization of palmitic acid for See also:

• CANDLE (Lat. candela, from candere, to glow)

candle-making . In the later years of his See also:

• LIFE

life he applied himself to the problem of obtaining alumina in the crystalline See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and succeeded in making rubies identical with the natural See also:

• GEM (Lat. gemma, a bud,—from the root gen, meaning " to produce,"—or precious stone; in the latter sense the Greek term is > d>os)
• GEM, ARTIFICIAL

gem not merely in chemical composition but also in See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical properties .