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.

â€œScientific research is search for truth. Only after discovery, applicability can be considered.â€

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Over three hundred publications.

Greatest works:

Le Four Ã‰lectrique (The electric-arc furnace) 1897.

Le Fluor et ses ComposÃ©s (Fluorine and its compounds) 1900.

TraitÃ© de Chimie Minerale (Treatise on inorganic chemistry). Five volumes 1904-1906.

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Name: Henri Moissan
Birth: 28 September, 1952, Paris, France
Death: 20 February, 1907, Paris, France
Affiliation: Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Prize Motivation: "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him."
Education: College de Meaux. Musee d’Histoire Naturelle - Edmond Fremy’s lab. Doctoral degree Agronomic Institute 1880; thesis: cyanogen series.
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