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Henri Moissan: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1906
Author(s) -
Tressaud Alain
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200601600
Subject(s) - chemist , history of chemistry , art history , chemistry , classics , philosophy , art , epistemology , history of science , organic chemistry
A Frenchman's revolution : The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1906 was awarded to Frenchman Henri Moissan, the first chemist to isolate fluorine and introduce the electrical furnace. A hundred years on, we remember these and other important breakthroughs that Moissan made during his career and discuss their impact on modern‐day chemistry.