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PROUST, JOSEPH LOUIS (17541826)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 490 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PROUST, JOSEPH LOUIS (17541826) , French chemist, was born on the 26th of September 1754 at Angers, where his father was an apothecary. After beginning the study of
chemistry
  in his father's shop he came to Paris and gained the appointment of apothecary in
chief
  to the Salpetriere, also lecturing on
chemistry
  at the musk of the aeronaut J. F. Pilatre de Rozier, whom he accompanied in a
balloon
  ascent in 1784. Next, at the instance of Charles IV., he went to Spain, where he taught chemistry first at the artillery school of
Segovia
 , and then at Salamanca, finally becoming in 1789 director of the royal laboratory at Madrid. In 18o8 he lost both his position and his money by the fall of his patron, and retired first to Craon in Mayenne and then to Angers, where he died on the 5th of July 1826. His name is best known in connexion with a
long
  controversy with C. L. Berthollet. The latter chemist was led by his
doctrine
  of mass-action to deny that substances always combine in constant and definite proportions.,
Proust
 , on the other hand, maintained that compounds always contain definite quantities of their constituent elements, and that in cases where two or more elements unite to form more than one compound, the proportions in which they are present vary per saltum, not gradually. In 1799 he proved that carbonate of copper, whether natural or artificial, always has the same composition, and later he showed that the two oxides of tin and the two sulphides of iron always contain the same relative weights of their components and that no intermediate indeterminate compounds exist. His analytical skill enabled him to demonstrate the inaccuracy of the researches by which Berthollet attempted to support the opposite view, and to show among other things that some of the compounds which Berthollet treated as oxides were in reality hydrates containing chemically combined water, and the upshot was that by 18o8 he had fully vindicated his position.
Proust
  also investigated the varieties of
sugar
  that occur in sweet vegetable juices, distinguishing three kinds, and he showed that the
sugar
  in grapes, of which he announced the existence to his classes at Madrid in 1799, is identical with that obtained from honey by the Russian chemist J. T. Lowitz (17571804).
Besides papers in scientific
periodicals
  he published Indagaciones sobre el estan"ada de cobre, la vajilla de estano y el vidriado (1803); Memoire sur le
sucre
  de raisins (18o8); Recueil des memoires relatifs d la poudre a canon (1815) ; and Essai sur une des causes qui peuvent amener la formation du calcul (1824).


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