Moissan, Ferdinand Frédéric Henri

Moissan, Ferdinand Frédéric Henri

19th Century
Born: Paris (France), 1852
Died: Paris (France), 1907
Moissan studied pharmacy (1879), and earned his Ph.D. in 1885. He then joined the Faculty of the School of Pharmacy in Paris (1886) and moved on to the Sorbonne in 1900. Moissan’s teacher, E. Frémy, was interested in the isolation of the element fluorine. Numerous chemists had already tried to do this. Moisson attempted different techniques and finally he isolated the gas on June 26, 1886. Fluorine is the most active of all the elements. For this research was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1906.

  Henri Moissan
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906
"in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him"