Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange

French chemist and pharmacist

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1764

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 23-Aug-1844

Profession: pharmacist, chemist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange (12 July 1764, Paris – 23 August 1844) was a French chemist and pharmacist.
He was a professor of chemistry at the Ecole de pharmacie of Paris, later serving as director of the school. He was owner of a pharmacy on Rue Saint-Martin in Paris.
Being influenced by Antoine François Fourcroy and Claude Louis Berthollet, in 1789 he began devoting his time and energies to chemical research.
Subsequently, he became an instructor at the Ecole de pharmacie in Paris.He served as a military pharmacist during the Napoleonic campaigns.
In 1806 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, afterwards serving as a personal physician to Empress Josephine.
He had spent twelve years as director of the Ecole de pharmacie at the time of his death on 23 August 1844.His studies in the field of chemistry involved investigations of truffles, willow bark, ambergris, garlic, starch, sea water, milk, etc.