| Birth date | 29 May 1794 |
|---|---|
| Birth place | Marseille, France |
| Death date | 1 February 1882 (aged 87) |
| Death place | Paris, France |
| Known for | Beryllium |
| Field | Chemistry |
Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy (29 May 1794 – 1 February 1882) was a French chemist who primarily studied pharmaceuticals. He, alongside Friedrich Wöhler, first isolated beryllium.[1]
Education
Antoine Bussy entered the École Polytechnique in 1813, and there followed the courses delivered by Pierre Robiquet, the great French chemist who was to make decisive breakthroughs in bio-chemistry (he isolated the first amino-acid ever identified, asparagin, in 1805–1806), in industrial dyes (he isolated and identified alizarin, the most famous and first modern industrial red dye) and the pick-up of modern medication (he isolated, identified and started mass production of codeine, 1832). Robiquet tutored Antoine Bussy in his career as a chemist researcher and in his private career as pharmacist as well.[2] In 1828, Bussy published a preliminary notice of a new method of preparing magnesium by heating magnesium chloride and potassium in a glass tube. When the potassium chloride was washed out, small globules of magnesium remained.[3]
References
- ^ "Beryllium | Properties, Uses, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 2025-01-31. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ^ Bussy, Antoine (1841). "Antoine Bussy pronounced Robiquet's memorial elogium". Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessoires
- ^ Bussy announced the isolation of magnesium in 1828: * Bussy (1828). "Séance du 23 août." [Meeting of 23 August] (in French). Journal de Chimie Médicale, de Pharmacie et de Toxicologie. 4: 456–457. * Bussy published a detailed report on his isolation of magnesium in 1831: Bussy (1831). "Mémoire sur le radical métallique de la magnésie" [Memoir on the metallic radical of magnesia] (in French). Annales de chimie et de physique. 46: 434–437. 2nd series.