Théodore Sidot was a French

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who, in 1866, discovered the phosphorescence of zinc sulphide. He worked at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, as chemistry preparator. He was injured in the 1870

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at the Fort de Nogent. He received the 1883 Prix Trémont of the

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."Prix Trémont"
''Le Moniteur Scientifique'', volume XXV, page 417, May 1883

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