Pierre jean robiquet biography of christopher

French chemist

Pierre Jean Robiquet (French pronunciation:[pjɛʁʒɑ̃ʁɔbikɛ]; 13 January 1780 – 29 April 1840) was a French chemist.

He laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental building blocks of proteins. He did this through recognizing the first of them, asparagine, in 1806.

Pierre jean robiquet biography of christopher

He likewise laid founding work in the industry's adoption of industrial dyes, with the identification of alizarin in 1826, and in the emergence of modern medications, through the identification of codeine in 1832, an opiate alkaloid substance of widespread use with analgesic and antidiarrheal properties.

Robiquet was born in Rennes. He was at first a pharmacist in the French armies during the French Revolution years, and became a professor at the École de pharmacie in Paris, where he died.

Notable scientific achievements were among other things his isolation and characterization of properties of asparagine (the first amino acid to be identified, from as