Emil Kopp
{{short description|French chemist}}
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Emil Kopp (3 March 1817 – 30 November 1875) was a French chemist.
Biography
Kopp was born on 3 March 1817 in Wasselonne. He became in 1847 a professor of toxicology and chemistry at the École supérieure de Pharmacie at Strasbourg. Because of his participation in the demonstration on "revolutionary day" 13 June 1849, he was forced to leave France, subsequently settling in Switzerland.[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D11537.php Kopp, Emile] Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz In 1849 he became a professor of physics and chemistry at Lausanne, and in 1852 a chemist to a Turkey red factory near Manchester. In 1855 he was granted amnesty and returned to France. In 1868 he was named a professor of technology at Turin (Regio Museo Industriale italiano), and finally, in 1871, a professor of technical chemistry at the Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich, today the ETH Zurich. He died in Zürich.
He conducted experiments with arsenic acid as a discharge agent and filed patents for the employment of arsenic and phosphoric acids in discharge printing of fabrics.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NgzwCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31 Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry] by Carsten Reinhardt, Anthony S. Travis In 1844 he reportedly was the first to discover red phosphorus;[https://books.google.com/books?id=rI5GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115 The American Journal of Science, Volume 83] his findings taking place prior to Anton Schrötter's discovery of the substance during the following year.[https://books.google.com/books?id=AK8zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA840&lpg=PA840 Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics: (and Related Subjects)] by K.L. Kosanke, Barry T. Sturman, Robert M. Winokur, B.J. Kosanke
With Pompejus Bolley, he published "Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille" (1874, "Treatise on artificial dyes derived from coal tar").[http://www.idref.fr/143495968 IDREF.fr] published works
See also
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Further reading
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Kopp, Hermann Franz Moritz |volume=15 |page=897}}; has a disambiguating addendum on Emil Kopp
- {{cite journal|title = Nekrologe: Emil Kopp|journal = Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft |volume = 9 |issue = 2|pages = 1950–1961|year = 1876 |doi = 10.1002/cber.187600902265}}
- {{cite book | title = Emil Kopp, der erste Sozialist im Unter-Elsass | last = Stadtler | first = Eduard | place = Strassburg}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=EXNJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA211 The American Chemist, Volumes 6–7] edited by Charles Frederick Chandler, William Henry Chandler.
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Category:19th-century French chemists
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