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Jean-Baptiste Dumas
French chemist (1800–1884)
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Details
Instance of
human
Born
14 July 1800
, 15 July 1800
, 16 July 1800
Died
2 April 1884
, 9 April 1884
, 11 April 1884
Place of birth
Alès
Place of death
Cannes
Sex or gender
male
Given name
Jean-Baptiste
,
André
Family name
Dumas
Spouse
Herminie-Caroline Brongniart
Child
Ernest Charles Jean-Baptiste Dumas
,
Marie-Noëlie-Cécile Dumas
Field of work
chemistry
Occupation
chemist
,
politician
,
university teacher
,
pharmacist
,
botanical collector
Position held
Deputy of the French Second Republic
,
Second Empire senator
,
seat 40 of the Académie française
,
president of the French Academy of Sciences
Citizenship
France
Awards
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
,
Copley Medal
,
Faraday Lectureship Prize
,
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
,
Albert Medal
,
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
,
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
,
Montyon Science Award
,
72 names on the Eiffel Tower
collection items at
Herbarium, Meise Botanic Garden
date of burial or cremation
16 April 1884
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
,
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Encyclopedic Lexicon
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
,
BEIC Digital Library
,
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
educated at
University of La Frontera
employer
École polytechnique
,
Paris Medical Faculty
,
Science Faculty of Paris
languages spoken, written or signed
French
member of
Royal Society
,
Société Philomathique de Paris
,
Académie Française
,
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
,
French Academy of Sciences
,
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
,
Académie Nationale de Médecine
,
Russian Academy of Sciences
,
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
,
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
place of burial
Montparnasse Cemetery
relative
Noël Jean-Baptiste Henri Alphonse Dumas
student
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
,
Louis Pasteur
,
José Monserrat Riutort
,
August Kekulé
topic's main category
Category:Jean-Baptiste Dumas (chemist)
work location
Paris
writing language
French
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Connected on Wikidata
Author of
The chemical and physiological balance of organic nature; an essay
Discours et éloges académiques
Subject of
EB-11 / Dumas, Jean Baptiste André
Influenced
Jean Servais Stas
José Monserrat Riutort
Parent of
Ernest Charles Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Marie-Noëlie-Cécile Dumas
Spouse of
Herminie-Caroline Brongniart