Achard, Franz Carl
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| born on | 28 April 1753 at 14:00 (= 2:00 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Berlin, Germany, 52n29, 13e21 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m13e21 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   08°19'   11°33 Asc. 13°45'
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Biography
German (Prussian) chemist, physicist and biologist. Achard invented the industrial process to produce table sugar (sucrose) from beets. Table sugar used to be a luxury item only the wealthy could afford. Achard's sugar refineries produced sugar at a much lower price where anyone could afford to have a sugar bowl in their house.
Achard studied many subjects, including meteorology, evaporation chillness, electricity, telegraphy, gravity, lightning arresters, and published in German and French.
Achard was a favorite of King Frederick II of Prussia, and directly reported to the King on his research twice a week.
In 1776 Achard was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He published several volumes of chemical and physical researches, discovering among other things a method of working platinum.
He died, destitute, on 20 April 1821 in Wohlau.
Events
Source Notes
Arno Müller, vol 2.
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Chemistry
- Vocation : Science : Physics
- Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (production of sugar)
