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Jean Antoine Chaptal

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Antoine Chaptal , 1756-1832, French chemist, industrialist, and statesman. He became (1781) professor of chemistry at Montpellier, and during the Revolution he was active in gunpowder production. Later, as minister of the interior (1801-9) and director-general of commerce and manufactures (1815) under Napoleon I, he introduced far-reaching reforms in medicine, industry, and public works. Chaptal's writings pioneered in the application of chemical principles to industrial processes. Author not available, CHAPTAL, JEAN ANTOINE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007... Read more
Nitrogen
...Cavendish independently discovered the element in 1772. Nitrogen received its name in 1790 from French chemist Jean-Antoine Chaptal, who realized that it was present in nitrate (NO 3 − ) and nitric acid (HNO 3 ). Nitrogen is the most abundant... Read more
Nitrogen (revised)
...about the name of this new element for some time. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94), a French chemist and...nitrogen was first suggested in 1790 by French chemist Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal (1756-1832). This name made sense to chemists when... Read more

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Claude Louis Berthollet: A Great Chemist in +he french Tradition.
; ...collaborated scientificallywith the celebrated chemist Antoine Laurentde Lavoisier (1743-1794). In 1785, he adopted...industries. Together with fellow chemist and compatriot Jean Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), who worked mainly on technical problems... Read more
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830
; ...Thermidor (July 1794). Instead, government officials like Jean-Antoine Chaptal sought to take the lead in promoting technological...theory and practice to farther a liberal agenda" made Chaptal "the father of the nineteenth-century French economy... Read more

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