Alfred Claude Aimé Girard (22 December 1831 – 12 April 1898) was a French

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and

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who was a professor at the ''Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers''.

Biography

He was a member of the ''

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'', the ''

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'' (1894-1898) and the ''

Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (''Committee for Historic and Scientific Works'') is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading ...

'' (1897-1898, resident member). He wrote many publications throughout his lifetime on various topics from the fabrication of paper to the cultivation of industrial potatoes. (All published between 1861-1898) He was a member of the board of directors of the

Société française de photographie The Société française de photographie (SFP) is an association, founded on 15 November 1854, devoted to the history of photography. It has a large collection of photographs and old cameras. Among the founding members were Olympe Aguado, Hippoly ...

in 1863 and had been a member of that society from 1855. He died at 67 years old and was buried in the renowned

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cemetery.
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Selected writings

* ''Recherches sur la composition des raisins des principaux cépages de France'', 1895 (Research on grape composition involving the principal

grapes A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years ago ...

of France). * ''Mémoire sur l'hydro-cellulose et ses dérivés'', 1881 (Memoirs on hydro-

cellulose Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is an important structural component of the primary cell wall ...

and its derivatives). * ''Recherches sur la culture de la pomme de terre industrielle'', 1889 ( Research on the cultivation of industrial potatoes.) * ''Introduction au Dictionnaire de chimie industrielle'', 1861 (Introduction to the dictionary of

industrial chemistry The chemical industry comprises the companies that produce industrial chemicals. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. The ...

). * ''Papier et papeterie'', 1873 (

Paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed ...

and

stationery Stationery refers to commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous form paper, and other office supplies. Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter paper) ...

). * ''Composition chimique et valeur alimentaire des diverses parties du grain de froment'', 1884 (

Chemical composition A chemical composition specifies the identity, arrangement, and ratio of the elements making up a compound. Chemical formulas can be used to describe the relative amounts of elements present in a compound. For example, the chemical formula for ...

and nutritive value involving different parts of

wheat grain Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeological ...

). * ''Recherches sur le développement progressif de la grappe de raisin'', 1898. (Research on the gradual development of the grape cluster.)

References

External links

*
The Works of Aimé Girard (French)

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