Jean_Baptiste_Guimet

Jean-Baptiste Guimet

Jean-Baptiste Guimet

19th-century French industrial chemist

Jean-Baptiste Guimet (20 July 1795 – 8 April 1871), French industrial chemist, and inventor of synthetic colors,[2] was born at Voiron, Isère.

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He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Salpêtres.[3] As natural lazurite was expensive and inaccessible, different options for its artificial production were explored in Europe.[4] Jean Baptiste Guimet discovered a synthetic route in 1826.[5] He finally prepared the synthetic lazurite, called ultramarine in 1828.[4] It was also called as French ultramarine.[5] In 1828 he was awarded the prize offered by the Société d’encouragement pour l’industrie nationale for a process of making artificial ultramarine with all the properties of the substance prepared from expensive natural source lapis lazuli;[6] and six years later he resigned his official position in order to devote himself to the commercial production of that material, a factory for which he established at Fleurieu-sur-Saône.[3]

His son Émile Étienne Guimet succeeded him in the direction of the factory.[3]

Notes

Lapis lazuli (blue stone) was originally brought to Europe from Afghanistan. It becomes very expensive due to its source and the difficulties involved in its preparation process. It has been described as ultramarine (beyond the sea).[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Engraving published in Le Livre du centenaire, 1794-1894, Vol. III, (Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils) 1897.
  2. [2]
    Chang, Ting (11 October 2016). Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-century Paris. Oxon: Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-138-24919-6. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  3. [3]
     One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guimet, Jean Baptiste". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 696.
  4. [4]
    Nečas, Radovan (2016). "Ultramarine – Not Just a Pigment of Traditional Folk Architecture Plasters". Procedia Engineering. 151: 114–118. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.07.400. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  5. [5]
    Evans, Rachel C. (8 July 2014). Applied Photochemistry. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 152. ISBN 978-9-048-13830-2. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  6. [6]
    Perrin, Paul (31 January 2018). Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore. p. 179. ISBN 978-9-811-14515-5. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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