Summary
Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (29 May 1794 – 1 February 1882) was a French chemist who primarily studied pharmaceuticals.
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 |
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.
