Bernard Courtois

See also: Courteous

Bernard Courtois (* February 8th 1777, Dijon - † 1838), is a French chemist.

He was wire of a Salpêtrier. After having studied chemistry, it was delivered especially to industry, and establishes in 1804 an artificial Nitrière (manufactures of salpetre). By treating the water-mothers of sodas which it employed in its manufacture, it discovered there, in 1812, a new body which it insulated, but of which it left the study to others.

This body, which took since so large important in industry and medicine, is that to which Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac gave the name of Iode. Ruined by the peace, which opened the France with foreign salpetres. Courteous fought against misery, when the Academy of Science, on the proposal of Louis Jacques Thénard, decreed to him a price of 6000 francs for its discovery.

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