Jacques-Louis Soret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques-Louis Soret

Swiss chemist (1827-1890)

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1827

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 13-May-1890

Profession: physicist, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jacques-Louis Soret (30 June 1827 – 13 May 1890) was a Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically.
Independently, Per Teodor Cleve separated it chemically from thulium and erbium in 1879.
The three are given credit for the element's discovery. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together.The Soret peak, a strong absorption band of hemoglobin is also named after him.His son was Charles Soret, a recognized physicist and chemist in his own right.