Antoine Jerome Balard
| Antoine Jerome Balard | |
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| Birth | 30 September 1802 Montpellier ( France ) |
| Deaths | 30 March 1876 Paris ( France ) |
| Nationality |  French |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institution | ENS Faculty of Sciences at Paris Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes College de France |
| Known for | Discovery of bromine |
| Honors | Royal Medal (1830) |
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Antoine-Jerome Balard, born in Montpellier September 30, 1802 and died March 30, 1876 in Paris , is a chemist French.
Biography
It was first pharmacist and preparer chemistry lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure , a professor at the Faculty of Paris from 1841 to 1867, where he succeeded Jacques Louis Thnard and was replaced by Henry St. Clair Deville , director of studies in the second section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes , professor at College de France in 1851, a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1844. He was also president of the French Photographic Society from 1858 to 1868.
We owe him the discovery of bromine , simple body metalloid that had not yet been isolated, and he found many applications in science and industry.
He also rendered service to the industrial arts by extracting directly from the sea water the sulphate of soda , which made it possible to deliver abundant and cheap artificial soda and potash salts and trade.
His works are exhibited in the memoirs as part of Proceedings of the Academy of Science and Annals of Physics and Chemistry. The discovery of bromine won him the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1830.
Sources
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| Preceded by | Antoine Jerome Balard | Followed by | |
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| Louis Jacques Thnard |
| Henri Sainte-Claire Deville | |
| Thophile-Jules Pelouze |
| Paul Schtzenberger |
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