- Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés
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birth_date =24 October 1817
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death_date =31 May 1880
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footnotes =Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés (
Draguignan 24 October 1817 -Paris 31 May 1880 ) was a Frenchchemist who inventedmargarine .He was born as Hippolyte Mège, the son of a primary school teacher, but later added his mother's surname to his own. In 1838, Mège obtained a job in the central pharmacy of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in
Paris and started to publish original contributions in applied chemistry.Mège focussed on fat processing in the 1860's, which culminated in 1869 in a patent for
margarine . His invention involved mixing processed beef tallow with skimmed milk, and resulted in a cheap but qualitatively good substitute for butter 'for the working class and incidentally the Navy'. Mège received a prize from the French government, formally led by Emperor Louis Napoleon III. In 1871, Mège sold his invention to the Dutch firm Jurgens, one of the pillars ofUnilever .ources
* H. McGee (1984), On food and cooking: The science and lore of the kitchen, Charles Scribner, New York.
External links
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,719022,00.html "Time" magazine article]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E2D9103DF93AA1575AC0A9659C8B63 "New York Times" story]
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