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French pharmacist and chemist (–)

Louis Nicolas VauquelinFRS(For) HFRSE (French pronunciation:[lwinikɔlavoklɛ̃]; 16 May – 14 November ) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

He was the discoverer of chromium and beryllium.

Early life

Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, France, the son of Nicolas Vauquelin, an estate manager, and his wife, Catherine Le Charterier.^[1]

His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory assistant to an apothecary in Rouen (–), and after various vicissitudes he obtained an introduction to A.

F. Fourcroy, in whose laboratory he was an assistant from to

Moving to Paris, he became a laboratory assistant at the Jardin du Roi and was befriended by a professor of chemistry. In he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences and from that time he helped to edit the journal Annales de Chimie(Chemical annals), although he left the country for a while during the height of