- Paul Jacques Malouin
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name = Paul Jacques Malouin
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birth_place =Caen ,France
death_date = death date and age|1778|1|3|1701|6|27
death_place =Versailles , France
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nationality = French
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field =Physicist andChemist
work_institutions =University of Paris
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known_for =Epidemiology
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footnotes =Paul Jacques Malouin (
1701-06-27 ,Caen -1778-01-03 ,Versailles ) was a Frenchchemist andphysicist .Career
Malouin graduated in medicine in
1730 against the wishes of his father (a legal official from Caen) who had sent him to Paris to study law. He settled in Paris in 1734 and opened a medical practice which attracted clients from the aristocracy and royal family.With the help of Fontenelle, a distant relation, he entered the
French Academy of Sciences in1742 where his particular research interest was the application of chemistry to medicine. In1745 he was appointed professor of chemistry at theJardin du Roi .For nine consecutive years he studied the
epidemics raging in Paris and recorded the results of his research in his "Mémoires" published by the Academy of Sciences between1746 and1754 , linking epidemic diseases to air temperature. [cite book | last = McClellan | first = James E. | authorlink = | title = Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale | publisher = DIANE | date = 2003 | pages = 62-63 | doi = | isbn = 0871699338 ] .In
1753 Malouin began a formal association with the royal court when he bought from Lassone the position of "médecin de la reine" (physician to the king) for the sum of 22,000livres ; he was subsequently made physician to theDauphine in1770 . Thereafter he spent increasing amounts of time at court, being granted an apartment in theLouvre and having rooms at Versailles.In 1742 Malouin described, in a presentation to the Royal Academy, a method of coating iron by dipping it in molten Zinc (i.e.
hot-dip galvanizing ).In
1753 he became a Fellow of theRoyal Society and in 1767 was made a professor at theCollège de France . In1776 he was appointed professor at theRoyal College where he occupied the Chair of Medicine until his death in January 1778. It was recorded that at the time of his death his fortune amounted to 132,775 livres, 110,000 of which was in the form of state bonds. Another 18,500 was invested in theCompagnie des Indes ; his personal possessions were valued at 3,275 livres. [cite book | last = Sturdy | first = David J. | authorlink = | title = Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750 | publisher = Boydell & Brewer | date = 1995 | pages = 402 | doi = | isbn = 085115395X ]Publications
Malouin's main publication was a "Treatise of Chemistry" (1734), containing many instructions on the preparation of remedies used in medical practice at the time. He also contributed more than 75 articles on chemistry to
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke 'sEncyclopédie Méthodique and wrote articles for the Academie Des Sciences'Descriptions des Arts et Métiers .Notes
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