Charles Dufraisse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist and professor
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Place of Birth: Excideuil, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Charles Dufraisse
- Charles Dufraisse (20 August 1885, in Excideuil – 5 August 1969, in Excideuil) was a French chemist.
- With Charles Moureu, he conducted pioneer research of autoxidation and antioxidants. In 1921 he received his doctorate at Paris with the thesis Contribution à l'étude de la stéréoisomérie éthylénique, and served as an associate director in the laboratory of organic chemistry at the Collège de France.
- In 1927 he was named a professor at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris, and in 1942 became a professor at the Collège de France.
- He was cofounder of the Institut français du caoutchouc (French Institute of Rubber).
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