Albin Haller (7 March 1849, Fellering – 1 May 1925) was a French

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' 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 th ...

.W. J. Pope (1925) ''Nature'', Vol.115(2900), p.843 "Prof. Albin Haller, For. Mem. R.S" (obituary) Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and in 1917 won the

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of the

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"''On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry''". Appointed to the

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in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923. He was also a member of the French

Académie Nationale de Médecine Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the instituti ...

Selected publications

*A. Haller (1894) Produits chimiques et pharmaceutiques: materiel de la peinture parfumerie, savonnerie (Imprimerie Nationale) *A. Haller (1895) L'industrie chimique (J.B. Baillière et fils) *A. Haller (1903) Les industries chimiques et pharmaceutiques (Gauthier-Villars)

References

1849 births 1925 deaths People from Haut-Rhin Academic staff of ESPCI Paris Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society {{france-chemist-stub