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THE death of Joseph Achille Le Bel, which occurred in Paris on Aug. 6, removes a veteran who had been closely associated with the rapid development of organic chemistry during the latter part of the last century. Le Bel was born at Pechelbronn, Alsace, on Jan. 21,1847, and was a nephew of Boussingault, the agricultural chemist. He was a student at the Fjcole Polytechnique from 1865 to 1867 and became successively assistant to Balard, the discoverer of bromine, at the College de France, and to Wurtz, at the Fjcole de MMecine, in Paris. For some time he was in charge of the petroleum workings at Pechelbronn, in which his uncle was interested; he became and remained an ardent partisan of Mendeléeff's view that the petroleum deposits result from the action of steam on metallic carbides at volcanic temperatures.
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POPE, W. J. A. Le Bel, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 126, 374–375 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126374a0
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