Bussy Antoine Alexander Brutus

He graduated in 1813 from the Paris Polytechnic School . Apprentice of Pierre Jean Robiquet , who had a great influence on his further scientific career.

Starting with a pharmacy student, in 1830 he was already a professor, and since 1834 the director of a pharmaceutical school in Paris.

He lectured at the Paris School of Pharmacy from 1824 to 1874.

In 1850 he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences , in 1856 he became president of the Paris Medical Academy and the Paris Pharmaceutical Company (1836 and 1868).

In 1828, the first in the world, regardless of Friedrich Wöhler , isolated a new element of beryllium by acting with potassium on anhydrous beryllium chloride ^[2] . After Humphrey Davy managed to obtain a small amount of magnesium by electrolysis in 1809, A. Bussy in 1829 received a rather large amount of magnesium ^[3] . He also conducted research in the field of organic compounds . It was he who in 1833 assigned the name acetone to this organic substance .

In addition to the translation of Manipulations chimiques de Faraday and coauthored by Butron , Traité des moyens de reconnaître les falsifications des drogues simples et composées et d'en constater le degré de pureté (Paris, 1829) and Éloge de Pierre Robiquet ( Journal de Pharmacie, April 1841) he still owns a number of studies and publications in special journals.

The author of the book "Mémoire sur le Radical métallique de la Magnésie" (1831), which described a method for producing magnesium by heating magnesium chloride with potassium in a sealed glass tube. When the potassium chloride evaporated, a small amount of balls of magnesium remained in the tube.

• Bussy, Antoine-Alexander-Brutus // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Beryllium