Paul Lebeau
French chemist
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| Intro | French chemist | |
| A.K.A. | Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau | |
| A.K.A. | Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Chemist | |
| Work field | Science | |
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| Birth | 19 December 1868, Boiscommun, canton of Beaune-la-Rolande, arrondissement of Pithiviers, Loiret | |
| Death | 18 November 1959Massy, canton of Massy-Est, arrondissement of Palaiseau, Essonne (aged 90 years) |
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Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau (19 December 1868 – 18 November 1959) was a French chemist. He studied at the elite École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI). Together with his doctoral advisor Henri Moissan he was working on fluorine chemistry discovering several new compounds, like bromine trifluoride, oxygen difluoride, selenium tetrafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride.
In 1899 he was able to obtain pure beryllium by electrolysis sodium fluoroberyllate (Na2[BeF2]).
In World War I he improved the gas mask design used by the French army.