Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
Chemist, Academic
1818 – 1881
Who was Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville?
Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville was a French chemist.
He was born in the island of St Thomas, West Indies, where his father was French consul. Together with his elder brother Charles he was educated in Paris at the College Rollin. In 1844, having graduated as doctor of medicine and doctor of science, he was appointed to organize the new faculty of science at Besançon, where he acted as dean and professor of chemistry from 1845 to 1851. Returning to Paris in the latter year he succeeded A. J. Balard at the École Normale, and in 1859 became professor at the Sorbonne in place of J. B. A. Dumas, for whom he had begun to lecture in 1853. He died at Boulogne-sur-Seine.
In 1841, he began his experiments with investigations of oil of turpentine and tolu balsam, in the course of which he discovered toluene. But his most important work was in inorganic and thermal chemistry. In 1849 he discovered anhydrous nitric acid, a substance interesting as the first obtained of the so-called "anhydrides" of the monobasic acids.
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1818
Saint Thomas - Also known as
- 亨利·爱丁·圣克莱尔·德维尔
- Siblings
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 1, 1881
Boulogne-Billancourt - Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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