Jean-Baptiste Guimet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist
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Place of Birth: Voiron, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France
About Jean-Baptiste Guimet
- Jean-Baptiste Guimet (20 July 1795 – 8 April 1871), French industrial chemist, was born at Voiron, Isère. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Salpêtres.
- In 1828 he was awarded the prize offered by the Société d’encouragement pour l’industrie nationale for a process of making artificial ultramarine with all the properties of the substance prepared from lapis lazuli; and six years later he resigned his official position in order to devote himself to the commercial production of that material, a factory for which he established at Fleurieu-sur-Saône.His son Émile Étienne Guimet succeeded him in the direction of the factory.
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