Pierre Alexis Francis Bobœuf

Pierre Alexis Francis Bobœuf , born with Chauny (Aisne) on September 6th, 1807, dead on November 26th, 1874.

After 1830, Bobœuf entered like supernumerary the offices of the ministry Guizot. Later, we find it with the cabinet Casimir Périer, where many leisures enable him to be devoted entirely to its favorite passion, the study of chemistry.

It is about this time that, thanks to its knowledge, it hitherto found initially processes unknown in the application of the colors, and gave, by its activity, a very considerable development with the industry of the artificial flowers.

After being itself launched in operations that the revolution of 1848 stopped abruptly, Bobœuf, completely ruined, went back to the study from chemistry, in particular to that of mineral oils. All its care related initially to the properties of the phenol, whose long preparation was extremely expensive. After many tests, Bobœuf found a solution, was made patent for its method of preparation, which gave thirty-six time more product, and which consisted in directly treating all oils by a concentrated soda solution. The Phénol Bobœuf was discovered.

Soon it was not any more question but really marvellous properties of this new product like disinfecting energetic, antiputrefactive, antiscorbutic, anti-epidemic and hemostatic, curing, preventing or destroying gangrene, coal, etc

Later, Bobœuf discovered in phenol of new properties from the point of view of the cattle breeding, of the typhus and other diseases of the animals.

The Academy of Science, recognizing the services rendered to humanity by Bobœuf, decreed to him in 1861 the Prix Montyon.

source

Random links: