Albin Haller

{{Short description|French chemist (1849–1925)}}

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Albin Haller (7 March 1849, Fellering – 1 May 1925) was a French chemist.W. J. Pope (1925) Nature, Vol.115(2900), p.843 "Prof. Albin Haller, For. Mem. R.S" (obituary)Charles Moureu (1925) discours à l'Académie des sciences le 2 mai 1925, (F. Didot, Paris) "Funérailles de Albin Haller" (obituary)

Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and in 1917 won the Davy Medal of the Royal Society "On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry".{{cite book |last=Burke |first=Edmund |author2=James Dodsley |year=1918 |title=Annual Register |page=119 |edition=6th }} Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923. He was also a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine.{{cite book | last = Verhulst | first = Ferdinand | title = Poincaré: Impatient Genius | publisher = Springer | date = 2012| pages = 8 | isbn = 978-1-4614-2406-2}}

Haller was married to a cousin of Henri Poincaré. Haller and Poincaré were close friends.