Jean servais stas biography of william

(b. Louvain, Belgium, 21 August ; d. Brussels, Belgium, 13 December )

chemistry.

Stas was the son of a stovemaker of Louvain.

Jean servais stas biography of william

As a boy he was taken to Paris by his elder brother Guillaume, a pupil of the sculptor François Rude, to pose for the statue Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing With a Tortoise, now at the Louvre. In Stas entered the medical faculty of the University of Louvain.

After receiving the M.D. in , he became assistant to his former professor of chemistry, Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, an expert in pomology who owned an apple nursery and experimented on fruit trees. When the nursery was displanted, Stas and Van Mons’s other assistant, L.

G. De Koninck, were provided with a large supply of fresh roots of apple trees from which they isolated a crystalline glucoside that they named phlorizin. Stas conducted research on this substance in a small laboratory that he had equipped in the attic of his father’s house.

In Stas moved to Paris, to profit from t