Pelletier, Bertrand

Pelletier, Bertrand, Memoires et observations de Chimie," Vol. 2, Paris,... 

Lagrange, Count J.-L., Notice des Travaux de Bertrand Pelletier, Arm. 

Bertrand Pelletier, 1761-1797. French chemist and pharmacist who investigated the arsenates, phosphates, and phosphides of many metals, studied the action of phosphorus on platinum, and devised new methods for making soap and refining metal for clocks. He served as inspector of the hospitals m Belgium. His son, Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842), and Joseph Caventou discovered quinine, cmehomne, strychnine, and brucine. See also ref. (89). 

In reporting Jeanety s process to the French Bureau of Consultation in 1792, C,-L. Berthollet and Bertrand Pelletier stated that the gold... 

Clnmie de Bertrand Pelletier, Vol. 2, Croullebois, Fuchs, Barrois, and Huzard, Paris, 1798, pp. 120-33. 

Jean Jacques Colin (Riom, Puy de Dome, 16 December 1784-Lavaine, Puy de Dome, 9 March 1865), who collaborated with Robiquet, was professor in Dijon and the St.-Cyr Military Academy. He published on fermentation, vegetable colours, etc. Pierre Joseph Pelletier (Paris 22 March 1788-19 July 1842), second son of Bertrand Pelletier (see Vol. Ill, p. 566), was a Paris apothecary who taught in the ficole de Pharmacie. Jean Bienaime Caventou (St. Omer, 30 June 1795-Paris, 5 May 1877), a Paris apothecary and professor of toxicology in the ficole de Pharmacie, also worked on calculi. ... 

Bertrand Pelletier (Bayonne, 30 July 1761-Paris, 21 July 1797 (after inhaling chlorine)) was first an assistant to D Arcet, then an apothecary, finally from 1795 professor in the ficole Polytechnique, and a member of government commissions. He worked on arsenic acid, which he obtained by heating arsenious oxide with ammonium nitrate, the crystallisation of deliquescent salts, chlorine, discovering chlorine hydrate independently of Berthollet (see p. 504), ethers, plumbago and molybdenite, and the preparation of phosphorus and its compounds, including phosphorous acid, phosphoric acid, and hydrogen phosphide (discovered by Gei embre) he was severely burned by an accident with phosphorus, which he showed would bum in air under water. He also published on strontium compounds, the analyses of... 

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