Léon-Albert Arnaud
Léon-Albert Arnaud (15 February 1853 – 27 March 1915) was a French chemist born in Paris.
From 1872 he worked as an assistant in the laboratory of Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. In 1883 he succeeded François Stanislas Cloez (1817-1883) as aide-naturaliste, and from 1890 to 1915 was chair of applied organic chemistry at the museum.
Arnaud was the first scientist to describe the chemical make-up of tariric acid, an extraction from the glucoside of the "tariri plant" found in Guatemala.[1] He is also credited with isolating tanghinine, taken from Tanghinia venenifera; (family Apocynaceae),[2] and in 1883 discovered a new alkaloid called .
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- 19th-century French chemists
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- 1853 births
- 1915 deaths
- Organic chemists
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