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BY the death of Emile Justin Armand Gautier, at Cannes, in his eighty-third year, France loses one of her most distinguished chemists. Born at Montpellier, the son of a medical man, Gautier appears to have been destined to follow his father's profession, and to his early training is to be attributed, in all probability, the direction of much of his subsequent life's work in science, notably in biological chemistry. As a youth he obtained a post, under the Faculty of Montpellier, first as aide-pr´eparateur and then as préparateur in the chemical laboratory, where he remained five years, and where he acquired that power and facility of manipulation which characterised his experimental work. In the early 'sixties he seems definitely to have decided to attach himself to chemistry as a career. At that period the science was experiencing profound changes, and chemical theory was developing with remarkable rapidity, more particularly owing to the progress in organic chemistry. Wurtz was everywhere recognised as one of the pioneers and leaders of the new movement, and accordingly young Gautier repaired to Paris to work under his inspiration and direction. At Paris he remained, becoming, in 1869, a member of the Faculty of Medicine, in 1872 director of the first laboratory of biological chemistry instituted in France, and in 1884, on the death of Wurtz, professor of medical chemistry. He was elected a member of the Academy in 1889.
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THORPE, T. Armand Gautier. Nature 106, 85–86 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106085a0
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