Antoine j. balard biography

Antoine Jérôme Balard

Antoine Jérôme Balard (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ʒeʁom balaʁ]; 30 September 1802 – 30 April 1876) was a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Jérôme Balard has received more than 72,068 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Jérôme Balard is the 236th most popular chemist (down from 179th in 2019), the 1,418th most popular biography from France (down from 1,192nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Chemist.

Antoine Jérôme Balard was a French botanist who is most famous for his work on the flora of Algeria. He was born in 1806 and died in 1887.

French chemist

Antoine Jérôme Balard (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twanʒeʁombalaʁ]; 30 September 1802 – 30 April 1876) was a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine.

Career

Born at Montpellier, France, on 30 September 1802, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences. In 1826 he discovered in seawater a substance which he recognized as a previously unknown element and named it bromine. It had been independently prepared by Carl Jacob Löwig the previous year and the two are both regarded as having discovered the element.

This achievement brought him the reputation that secured his election as successor to Louis Jacques Thénard in the chair of chemistry at the faculty of sciences in Paris, and in 1851 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the College de France, where he had Marcellin Berthelot first as pupil, then as assistan