Henri Moissan Doctoral degree

The Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry 1906

Chemist - inorganic. Isolated fluorine. Moissan's electric furnace. Blue perchromic acid formula, crystallized chromic acid. Uncovered silicon carbide, other carbides, borides, silicides. Theorized: from molten iron crystallize carbon under pressure, obtain synthetic diamonds. Meticulous, patient. Articulate lecturer.

“Scientific research is search for truth. Only after discovery, applicability can be considered.”

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Henri Moissan. Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1966. Public domain via Wikimedia commons.

Henri Moissan (1852-190), French chemist, Chemistry Nobelist 1906, using a Moissan-Chaplet electric arc furnace in his attempt to synthesize diamonds. Photo Library of Congress.

Moissan electric furnace and the Faculty of Sciences of Paris. Source & Permission: unknown.

In his early professional life in Meaux, Henri Moissan was an apprentice clockmaker. Permission: 2006 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

DJIBOUTI - CIRCA 2009: stamp dedicated to French Nobel chemistry prize shows Henri Moissan. Source: 123rf website

French stamp of Henri Moissan (1852-1907)1906 Nobel Chemistry Laureate.

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