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Stas, Jean-Servais
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Louvain, 1813 - Brussels - Saint-Gilles, 1891
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1851 - 1891 + Bruxelles
° 21.8.1813; + 13.12.1891. Doctor of medicine and chemist. Assistant to J.B. Dumas in Paris. Professor at the Military Academy. One of the leading Belgian scientists of the 19th century: he determined the atomic weights of seven elements, including carbon. In 1872, assisted by Léonce Rommelaere (see that name), he prepared pure platinum and iridium, crucial for constructing the standard metre.
He gave a talk on the daguerreotype and its applications to art at the "Cercle artistique et littéraire de Bruxelles" (with the assistance of Guillaume Claine) on 27.12.1851. Research activities from 1868 to 1874 on silver chloride and silver bromide. He established that the latter was more sensitive to light. It was after this that Désiré Van Monckhoven prepared his gelatine-bromide emulsions, a process that would come into general use. Honorary member of the ABP. Member of the "Académie royale des Sciences de Belgique".
° 21.8.1813; + 13.12.1891. Doctor of medicine and chemist. Assistant to J.B. Dumas in Paris. Professor at the Military Academy. One of the leading Belgian scientists of the 19th century: he determined the atomic weights of seven elements, including carbon. In 1872, assisted by Léonce Rommelaere (see that name), he prepared pure platinum and iridium, crucial for constructing the standard metre.
He gave a talk on the daguerreotype and its applications to art at the "Cercle artistique et littéraire de Bruxelles" (with the assistance of Guillaume Claine) on 27.12.1851. Research activities from 1868 to 1874 on silver chloride and silver bromide. He established that the latter was more sensitive to light. It was after this that Désiré Van Monckhoven prepared his gelatine-bromide emulsions, a process that would come into general use. Honorary member of the ABP. Member of the "Académie royale des Sciences de Belgique".
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1851 - 1891 + Bruxelles
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SPRING, W. "Stas (Jean-Servais)", Biographie Nationale, vol. 23, 1921-1924, col. 654-684.
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DIRECTORY_1997#3991