Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas
1800–84
French chemist. Studied pharmacy, chemistry, and botany at Geneva, 1816–23. Tutor in chemistry at the École polytechnique, Paris, 1823; professor of chemistry, Sorbonne, 1841–68. Co-founder of the École centrale des arts et manufactures, 1829. Permanent secretary, Académie des sciences, 1868. Made important contributions in organic chemistry.
Source
Complete dictionary of scientific biography
Bibliography
Complete dictionary of scientific biography. By Charles Coulston Gillispie, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, and Noretta Koertge. Electronic publication. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 2008.
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