Antoine Bussy
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| Born | 29 May 1794 Marseille, France |
| Died | 1 February 1882 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Known for | Beryllium |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (29 May 1794 – 1 February 1882) was a French chemist who primarily studied pharmaceuticals.
Education
[edit]Antoine Bussy entered the École Polytechnique in 1813, and there followed the courses delivered by Pierre Robiquet, the great French chemist who was to make decisive breakthroughs in bio-chemistry (he isolated the first amino-acid ever identified, asparagin, in 1805–1806), in industrial dyes (he isolated and identified alizarin, the most famous and first modern industrial red dye) and the pick-up of modern medication (he isolated, identified and started mass production of codeine, 1832). Robiquet tutored Antoine Bussy in his career as a chemist researcher and in his private career as pharmacist as well.[1] In 1828 Bussy published a preliminary notice of a new method of preparing magnesium by heating magnesium chloride and potassium in a glass tube. When the potassium chloride was washed out, small globules of magnesium remained.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bussy, Antoine (1841). "Antoine Bussy pronounced Robiquet's memorial elogium". Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessoires: 220–242.
- ^ Bussy announced the isolation of magnesium in 1828:
- Bussy (1828). "Séance du 23 août" [Meeting of 23 August]. Journal de Chimie Médicale, de Pharmacie et de Toxicologie (in French). 4: 456–457.
- Bussy published a detailed report on his isolation of magnesium in 1831: Bussy (1831). "Mémoire sur le radical métallique de la magnésie" [Memoir on the metallic radical of magnesia]. Annales de chimie et de physique. 2nd series (in French). 46: 434–437.
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