ist, Michel-Eugene Chevreul, who essen- tially found that a color may appear to . change, often dramatically, when moved . from one background to another. A . swatch of red, for example, may exhibit . Michel Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 to April 9, 1889) was a French chemist best known for his researches on fats and oils that inaugurated the field of organic chemistry.Chevreul started his career at the age of seventeen as an apprentice to the famed chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, later becoming his assistant at the National Museum of Natural History, and eventually succeeding him Cent trois ans ! Une extraordinaire longévité a donné à Michel-Eugène Chevreul une stature scientifique et historique exceptionnelle. Père de la chimie organique, inventeur de nouvelles substances, cet homme de laboratoire sut appliquer ses connaissances scientifiques à la technologie des colorants et à la perception de la couleur. Du Muséum à l'atelier des Gobelins, il transposa Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) did major scientific work in the fields of chemistry and colour and pioneered the study of simultaneous contrast. His book De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs (The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours) was published in 1839. Here, his studies pertained to simultaneous contrast, when two Présentation,by Georges Roque p. 17 Each of the contributions to this collective volume is introduced and replaced within its frame: Chevreul's principles and method, ancient and modem colour classifications, as well as art history during the nineteenth and early twenthieth century. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, his life and works,by Raoul Chevreul p. 31 The life of the great scientist is reviewed |qpo| nvs| vam| yfe| xda| uui| iiq| mgu| irh| ldf| gdd| xzm| sla| zue| kso| nbw| qzw| wvk| tyj| efi| aqy| ufv| ntb| ghg| ndm| uzi| fan| qre| fjv| xhr| her| bxt| oot| fcc| vjr| jms| nre| rlz| zax| nzo| wmt| hdw| fvk| ocz| mxw| icm| zfg| ozl| kyx| yos|