Aimé Girard
Alfred Claude Aimé Girard was a French chemist and agronomist who was a professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.Biography
He was a member of the Académie d'Agriculture, the Académie des sciences and the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques.
He wrote many publications throughout his lifetime on various topics from the fabrication of paper to the cultivation of industrial potatoes.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Société française de photographie in 1863 and had been a member of that society from 1855.
He died at 67 years old and was buried in the renowned Père Lachaise cemetery.Selected writings
- Recherches sur la composition des raisins des principaux cépages de France, 1895.
- Mémoire sur l'hydro-cellulose et ses dérivés, 1881.
- Recherches sur la culture de la pomme de terre industrielle, 1889
- Introduction au Dictionnaire de chimie industrielle, 1861.
- Papier et papeterie, 1873.
- Composition chimique et valeur alimentaire des diverses parties du grain de froment, 1884.
- Recherches sur le développement progressif de la grappe de raisin, 1898.
