Léon Maquenne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French chemist and plant physiologist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Léon Maquenne
- Léon-Gervais-Marie Maquenne (2 December 1853 – 10 January 1925) was a French chemist and plant physiologist born in Paris. From 1871 he worked in the laboratory of agricultural chemistry at the Ecole d'agriculture in Grignon.
- Here, he was a student of Pierre Paul Dehérain (1830-1902).
- In 1883 he became préparateur at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where from 1885 to 1898 he served as an assistant to the chair of Physiologie végétale.
- In 1898 he succeeded Georges Ville (1824-1897) as chair of Physique végétale, a position he held on to until 1925.
- In 1904 he became a member of the Académie des sciences. Among Maquenne's contributions was research involving the chemical make-up of sugar alcohols.
- He was able to resolve the chemical constitution of inositol and demonstrated it to be a hexahydroxycyclohexane.He is credited with invention of the so-called "Maquenne block", an apparatus used for determining the melting point of chemical compounds.
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