Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville

Henri Étienne Sainte -Claire Deville ( born March 11, 1818 in Saint Thomas, West Indies, † July 1, 1881 in Boulogne -sur -Seine, today: Boulogne- Billancourt ) was a French chemist.

Sainte -Claire Deville was a professor in Besancon and Paris in 1854 and introduced the first technical aluminum ago. He explored the platinum metals and discovered together with Friedrich Wöhler the crystallized boron and silicon. His brother was the geologist Charles Joseph Sainte -Claire Deville ( 1814-1876 ).