Henri Moissan, who occupied the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Sorbonne from 1900 until his death, was the first person to isolate and characterize the element fluorine. He also invented the high...
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Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was born in Paris in 1852 to a family of modest means. He was attracted into the laboratories of Edmond Fremy's School of Experimental Chemistry at the P...
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