Henri Moissan



Henri Moissan

Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan
BornSeptember 28 1852(1852-09-28)
Paris, France
DiedFebruary 20 1907 (aged 54)
Paris, France
Residence France
Nationality France
FieldNobel Prize for Chemistry (1906)

Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852 – February 20, 1907) was a French fluorine from its compounds.

Preparation of fluorine

Fluorine's existence had been well known for many years, but all attempts to prepare it had failed – and some experimenters had died in the attempt.

Moissan eventually succeeded in preparation by electrode from the fluorine produced at the positive one.[1][2] This is essentially still the way fluorine is produced today.

Further studies

Moissan went on to study fluorine chemistry in great detail, contributed to the development of the Moissanite, in his honor.

Death

He died suddenly in Paris in February 1907, shortly after his return from receiving the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. His death was attributed to an acute appendicitis. It is not known whether his experiments with fluorine contributed to his early death.

See also

References

  1. ^ H. Moissan (1886). "Action d'un courant électrique sur l'acide fluorhydrique anhydre". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 102: 1543-1544.
  2. ^ H. Moissan (1886). "Sur la décomposition de l'acide fluorhydrique par un courant électrique". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 103: 202.
  • A.G. Morachevskii (2002). "Henri Moissan (To 150th Anniversary of His Birthday)". Journal Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry 75 (10): 1720-1722. doi:10.1023/A:1022268927198.
  • G. V. Samsonov, V. A. Obolonchik (1886). "Frederic Henri Moissan, on the 120th anniversary of his birth". Journal Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics 11 (9): 766-768. doi:10.1007/BF00801283.
  • Flahaut J. (1999). "The scientific contributions of Moissan". Ann Pharm Fr. 57 (2): 101-7.
  • La Vie et les travaux de Henri Moissan written by Paul Lebau in 1931

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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Jacobus van 't Hoff (1901) • Emil Fischer (1902) • Svante Arrhenius (1903) • William Ramsay (1904) • Adolf von Baeyer (1905) • Henri Moissan (1906) • Eduard Buchner (1907) • Ernest Rutherford (1908) • Wilhelm Ostwald (1909) • Otto Wallach (1910) • Marie Curie (1911) • Victor Grignard / Paul Sabatier (1912) • Alfred Werner (1913) • Theodore Richards (1914) • Richard Willstätter (1915) • Fritz Haber (1918) • Walther Nernst (1920) • Frederick Soddy (1921) • Francis Aston (1922) • Fritz Pregl (1923) • Richard Zsigmondy (1925)

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Persondata
NAME Moissan, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moissan, Ferdinand Frederick Henri
SHORT DESCRIPTION French Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1907
PLACE OF DEATH Paris, France
 
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