Ulysses Gayon is a biochemist and agronomist French born with Bouex (Charentes) the May 8th 1845 and deceased with Bordeaux the April 11th 1929.

It is mainly known as being at the origin of the Bouillie of Bordeaux, Fongicide very much used for the treatment of the vine.

History

Wire of a former serviceman become peasant, Ulysses Gayon is received with the contest of the National university and in aggregate fate in 1871. Raise Louis Pasteur at this same school, it obtains in 1875 its thesis of doctorate, on the spontaneous Altération of the eggs . Following this thesis, the administration of the Douanes charges it with organizing a laboratory of regional control in Bordeaux. It will direct it during forty-four years.

In 1878, it is named Lecturer to the faculty of sciences of Bordeaux, with the pulpit of Chemistry. He will become Professor of the University in 1881. Its university career is marked by the creation of two schools: the School of chemistry applied to the industry and the agriculture of Bordeaux and of the Faculty of Enology of Bordeaux.

Honorary distinctions

A street of Bordeaux also bears its name.

Publications

  • 1875 : Research on the spontaneous of eggs , Yearly deteriorations scientists of the Sér National university. 2,4;
  • 1882 : Research on the reduction of nitrates by the infinitely smalls .

External bonds

  • Biography on the site of the institute Pasteur

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