Moureu, Charles

Moureu, Charles (1919). William Ramsay. Revue Scientifique 10 609-618. Reprinted in Farber, Eduard, ed. [1961]. Great Chemists. New York Interscience Publishers. 

Moureu, Charles. La Chimie et la Guerre Science et Avenir (Paris Masson, 1920). 

Fraii9ois Charles Leon Moureu (Moureu, Basses Pyrenees, 19 April 1863-Biarritz, 13 June 1929) at first studied pharmacy and was later professor of organic chemistry in the College de France. He worked on thermochemistry, molecular refraction and dispersion, the inert gases, and particularly on autoxidation reactions. Moureu, Charles Dufraisse, and P. M. Dean discovered the hydrocarbon rubrene. ... 

From 1924 to 1933, the editors of the Annales de Physique were Marcel Brillouin, Aime Cotton, and Jean Perrin and the editors of the Annales de Chimie were Charles Moureu, Georges Urbain, and Marcel Delepine. 

Professeur Charles Moureu), le 10 mars 1923," 125164, in Job, Formes chimiques de transition, ed. Jean Perrin and Georges Urbain (Paris Societe d Editions Scientifiques, 1931) and "Les reactions intermediaries dans la catalyse," rapport presente au deuxieme Conseil Solvay de Chimie tenu a Bruxelles du 16 au 24 avril 1925," 165193, Solvay II, diagrams on 172173, 174. 

In his studies at the Ecole Sup rieure de Pharmacie in Paris, Charles Moureu made an outstanding record. In 1907 he became professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and ten years later he accepted the chair of organic chemistry at the College de France as M. Berthelot s successor. 

Charles Moureu was editor of the Annales de chimie et de -physique and of the Revue scientifique. In spite of his many scientific honors and duties, he always maintained affectionate and sympathetic contacts with the humble workers with whom his childhood years had been spent. He died at Biarritz on June 13, 1929 ( 82). 

Charles Moureu, La CMmie et la Guerre. Science et Avenir (Paris Masson, 1920) Olivia- Lepick, La Grande Guerre Chimique, 1914-1918 (Paris Presses Universitaires de France, 1998). 

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