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Payen may refer to: People * Anselme Payen (1795–1878), French chemist * Antoine Payen the Younger (1792–1853), Belgian painter, naturalist and collector * Antoine Payen the Elder (1748–1798), Belgian architect * Antoine Payen (animator) (1902–1985), French animator * Louis Payen (real name Albert Liénard, 1875–1927), French librettist * Nicolas Payen (also Nicolas Colin, c. 1512–1559), Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster * Nicolas Roland Payen (1914–2004), French aeronautical engineer, including a list of 'Payen' aircraft * Pierre Payen (1914–2004), French editorial cartoonist and caricaturist * Payen Talu (born 1951), Taiwanese politician Other uses * Payén (also known as Reserva Provincial La Payunia), a natural reserve in Argentina See also * Hugues de Payens (c. 1070–1136), co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar * Pascal Payen-Appenzeller Pascal Payen-Appenzeller (born 13 May 1944) is Franco-Swiss historian, poet and writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anselme Payen
Anselme Payen (; 6 January 1795 – 12 May 1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Biography Payen was born in Paris. He began studying science with his father when he was a 13-year-old, and later studied Chemistry at the École Polytechnique under the chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Michel Eugène Chevreul. At the age of 23, Payen became manager of a borax-refining factory, where he developed a process for synthesizing borax from soda and boric acid. Previously, all borax had been imported from the East Indies exclusively by the Dutch. Payen's new method of synthesizing borax allowed him to sell the mineral at one third the going price, and break the Dutch monopoly. Payen also developed processes for refining sugar, along with a way to refine starch and alcohol from potatoes, and a method for determination of nitrogen. Payen invented a decolorimeter, which dealt with the analysis, decolorization, bleaching, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |