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Chevreul, Michel Eugène (1786-1889), chemist


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1589-1590 & 7125

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Chevreul, Michel Eugène (1786-1889), chemist

Date(s): 1812-1881

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 41 items

Name of creator(s): Chevreul | Michel Eugène | 1786-1889 | chemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Michel Chevereul was educated at the Collége de France, and elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1826. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, and Director form 1860 to 1879. He is mainly famous for his work on the composition of animal fats and saponification. He was elected FRS in 1857.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters, reports and miscellaneous documents, mainly by Michel Chevreul, 1812-1881.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Partially in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

MS 1590 was purchased in 1922. MS 7125 was purchased at various auctioneers' sales in Paris and London, 1928-1936.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Chemists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Dietary fats | Diet | Dietetics | Systems of medicine
Chemistry

Personal names
Chevreul | Michel Eugène | 1786-1889 | chemist

Corporate names

Places