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French chemist
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Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau
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Place of birth
Boiscommun, canton of Beaune-la-Rolande, arrondissement of Pithiviers, Loiret
Place of death
Massy, canton of Massy-Est, arrondissement of Palaiseau, Essonne
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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.
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