Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen

Jacques -Joseph Ebelmen (* July 10, 1814 in Doubs, Baume- les -Dames, † March 31, 1852 in Sèvres ) was a French chemist.

Ebelmen studied in 1831 at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines and afterwards was a mining engineer. From 1836 he spent four years in Vesoul, where he studied the local types of ore in Franche-Comté and get him success in the growth of crystals and the chemical metallurgy. In 1841 he was back in Paris, where he taught chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique and permanent secretary of the Commission of the Annales des Mines was. In 1845 he became chief engineer at the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, where he introduced many improvements in the making.

He became a professor at the Ecole des Mines and 1848, he gave public lectures on ceramics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1849 he was a member of the jury of the French national industrial exhibition in 1851 and the World Exhibition in London. In London, he was invited by Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution. After his return to France, he died of meningitis.

He examined in a series of papers the combustion processes in blast furnaces upon carbonization and in boilers of steam locomotives ( with François Clément Sauvage ). He examined the crystal formation and the mineral and rock formation.

He is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower. The International Association of Geochemistry award a prize, which is named after him.