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Paul Lebeau

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Nationality
  
French

Doctoral advisor
  
Henri Moissan

Name
  
Paul Lebeau


Born
  
19 December 1868 Boiscommun, France (
1868-12-19
)

Died
  
18 November 1959(1959-11-18) (aged 90) Paris, France

Known for
  
discovery of several fluorine compound

Paul lebeau i lift my hands holy apostles


Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau (19 December 1868 – 18 November 1959) was a French chemist. He studied at the elite École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI). Together with his doctoral advisor Henri Moissan he was working on fluorine chemistry discovering several new compounds, like bromine trifluoride, oxygen difluoride, selenium tetrafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride.

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In 1899 he was able to obtain pure beryllium by electrolysis sodium fluoroberyllate (Na2[BeF2]).

In World War I he improved the gas mask design used by the French army.

Making sourdough pita bread with paul lebeau


References

Paul Lebeau Wikipedia