Auguste-Arthur Plisson (died August 1832) was a French
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chÄ“m(Ãa)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe ...
. Born in
Orléans
Orléans (;["Orleans"](_blank)
(US) and [Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...]
. Taught by
Nöel-Étienne Henry, chief of the Central Pharmacy of Paris Hospitals (''Pharmacie centrale des hôpitaux de Paris'', today the ''
Agence générale des équipements et produits de santé''), he won several awards from the School of Pharmacy of Paris, including a gold medal for chemistry in 1823, and was eventually recruited by Henry to work for the Central Pharmacy. After several years, during which he published a number of papers on chemical discoveries, he was appointed deputy chief. He was also a member of the Société de Pharmacie (today the
Académie nationale de pharmacie).
By the late 1820s, Plisson had become chief pharmacist at Paris's
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1827, with
Étienne Ossian Henry, the son of his former tutor, he discovered
aspartic acid.
Plisson died suddenly in 1832 as the result of an attack of
cholera.
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1832 deaths
19th-century French chemists
French science writers
Date of birth unknown
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