Nicolas-louis vauquelin biography of albert

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Vauquelin, LOUIS-NICOLAS, b. at Saint-Andre d’Hebertot, Normandy, May 16, 1763; d.

November 14, 1829. In youth as apprentice to an apothecary of Rouen he developed a liking for chemistry.

Nicolas-louis vauquelin biography of albert

Later he went to Paris and met Fourcroy, who had been influenced by Lavoisier and the latter’s insistence upon the importance of quantitative measurements. Later he became even more accomplished than his master in the field of analytical chemistry.

In fact he did nothing in any other branch of chemical work, and although he wrote voluminously, as many as three hundred and seventy-eight papers being published by him, none of his work had any other direction than that of giving descriptions of analytical operations and results.

It made no difference whether it was in vegetable or mineral chemistry, or whether physiological or pathological, his work was only analytical, but of course it led to large advances in the field of the constitution of