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See also:THEOPHILE JULES See also:PELOUZE (1807-1867) , See also:French chemist, was See also:born at Valognes, in See also:Normandy, on the 26th (or 13th) of See also:February 1807 . His See also:father, Edmond See also:Pelouze (d . 1847), was an See also:industrial chemist and the author of several technical handbooks . The son, after spending some See also:time in a See also:pharmacy at La Fere, acted as laboratory assistant to See also:Gay-Lussac and J . L . Lassaigne (1800-1859) at See also:Paris from 1827 to 1829 . In 1830 he was appointed See also:associate See also:professor of See also:chemistry at See also:Lille, but returning to Paris next See also:year became repetiteur, and subsequently professor, at the Ecole Polytechnique . He also held the See also:chair of chemistry at the See also:College de See also:France, and in 1833 became assayer to the See also:mint and in 1848 See also:president of the See also:Commission See also:des Monnaies . After the coup d'etat in 1851 he resigned his appointments, but continued to conduct a laboratory-school he had started in 1846 . He died in Paris on the 1st of See also:June 1867 . Though Pelouze made no See also:discovery of outstanding importance, he was a busy investigator, his See also:work including researches on See also:salicin, on beetroot See also:sugar, on various organic acids—gallic, malic, tartaric, butyric, lactic, &c.—on oenanthic See also:ether (with See also:Liebig), on the nitrosulphates, on See also:gun-See also:cotton, and on the See also:composition and manufacture of See also:glass . He also carried out determinations of the atomic weights of several elements, and with E . See also:Fremy, published Traite de chimie generale (1847-1850); Abrege de chimie (1848); and Notions generates de chimie (18J3) . |
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