Cahours, Auguste

Meanwhile, chemists of reputation continued to flock to the society before the end of December 1858, Louis Pasteur, Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, Friedrich Beilstein, Auguste Cahours and Louis Troost all became members, and the total membership reached 101. At the last meeting of 1858, Girard announced that some members of the society wished to expand its goals and activities eonsiderably others, such as Arnaudon, preferred to maintain the limited functions consistent with the origins of the group. Put to a vote, 36 of the 52 members present favoured allowing the society to expand the circle of its... 

August Andre Thomas Cahours (Paris 2 October 1813-17 March 1891) was Warden of the Paris Mint, and from 1871 professor at the ficole Poly-... 

Xylenes were also first discovered during pyrolysis of renewable raw materials, namely by Auguste Cahours in crude wood spirit, in 1850 the name was therefore taken from the Greek word for wood. In 1855, H.Ritthausen and A.H. Church found xylenes in coal tar. 

Similarly as with the Deniges method, Stahr was not the first and this reaction was performed marty years before by French organic chemist Auguste Andre Thomas Cahours (1813-1891). In 1847 he published paper entitled Relatives a Taction du... 

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