Jules Pelouze

Théophile-Jules Pelouze (also known as Jules Pelouze), ; 26 February 180731 May 1867) was a French chemist.

Life

He was born at Valognes

His father, , was an industrial chemist and the author of several technical handbooks. The son, after spending some time in a pharmacy at La Fère acted as laboratory assistant to Gay-Lussac and Jean Louis Lassaigne at Paris from 1827 to 1829. In 1830 he was appointed associate professor of chemistry at Lille, but returning to Paris next year became repetiteur, and subsequently professor at the École polytechnique. He also held the chair of chemistry at the Collège de France, and in 1833 became assayer to the mint and in 1848 president of the Commission des Monnaies.

After the coup d'état in 1851 he resigned his appointments, but continued to conduct an experimental laboratory-school he had started in 1846.

Pelouze died in Paris.

Honours His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.