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  2. List of French inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Canning (see above in the chemistry section) Absorption refrigerator by Ferdinand Carré in 1858. [184] Margarine by Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès in 1869 [185] after the discovery of margaric acid by Michel Eugène Chevreul in 1813. [186] Clementine in 1902 by Clément Rodier. [187] Food processor by Pierre Verdun between 1963 and 1971. [188]

  3. Pierre Jean Robiquet - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Jean Robiquet (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʒɑ̃ ʁɔbikɛ]; 13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist.He laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental building blocks of proteins.

  4. Timeline of chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Antoine Lavoisier publishes Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, the first modern chemistry textbook. It is a complete survey of (at that time) modern chemistry, including the first concise definition of the law of conservation of mass, and thus also represents the founding of the discipline of stoichiometry or quantitative chemical analysis. [42 ...

  5. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Its discovery is generally believed to have originated in India around the 4th century AD, [65] although Singaporean mathematician Lam Lay Yong claims that the method is found in the Chinese text The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, from the 1st century AD. [66] 60 AD: Heron's formula is discovered by Hero of Alexandria. [67]

  6. Antoine Lavoisier - Wikipedia

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    Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ l ə ˈ v w ɑː z i eɪ / lə-VWAH-zee-ay; [1] [2] [3] French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), [4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

  7. Traité Élémentaire de Chimie - Wikipedia

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    Traité élémentaire de chimie [1] is a textbook written by Antoine Lavoisier published in 1789 and translated into English by Robert Kerr in 1790 under the title Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order containing All the Modern Discoveries. [2] It is considered to be the first modern chemical textbook. [3]

  8. Joseph Proust - Wikipedia

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    Joseph-Louis Proust was born on 26 September 1754 in Angers, France. His father served as an apothecary in Angers. Joseph studied chemistry in his father's shop and later went to Paris where he gained the appointment of apothecary in chief to the Salpêtrière. [2] He also taught chemistry with Pilâtre de Rozier, a famous aeronaut. [2]

  9. Francium - Wikipedia

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    Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey [4] in France (from which the element takes its name) on January 7, 1939. [5] Before its discovery, francium was referred to as eka-caesium or ekacaesium because of its conjectured existence below caesium in the periodic table. It was the last element first discovered in nature, rather than by synthesis.