Albin Haller
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Albin Haller was a French
chemist
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Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques
in Nancy and later won the Davy Medal
. Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences
in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
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Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques
École nationale supérieure des industries chimiques
The École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques is an Engineering School dedicated to Chemical Engineering in Nancy, France.Ensic Nancy is one of the seven schools of the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine , France's largest technological university.It was founded by Albin Haller...
in Nancy and later won the Davy Medal
Davy Medal
The Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff "for...
. Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923.