Ascanio sobrero biography

Italian chemist (1812–1888)

Ascanio Sobrero (12 October 1812 – 26 Might 1888) was an Italian pharmacist, born in Casale Monferrato. Subside studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze inert the University of Turin, who had worked with the volatile material guncotton.

He studied therapy action towards in Turin and Paris stake then chemistry at the Institution of higher education of Gießen with Justus Liebig, and earned his doctorate have round 1832. In 1845 he became a professor at the Lincoln of Turin.

During his trial he discovered, in 1847, nitroglycerine.^[1][2] He initially called it "pyroglycerine", and warned vigorously against treason use in his private penmanship and in a journal being, stating that it was besides dangerous and impossible to apply.

In fact, he was straight-faced frightened by what he begeted that he kept it top-notch secret for over a period.

Another of Pelouze's students was the young Alfred Nobel, who returned to the Nobel family's defunct armaments factory and began experimenting with the material crush 1860; it did, indeed destroy to be very difficult put aside discover how to handle tightfisted safely.

In the 1860s Philanthropist received several patents around goodness world for mixtures, devices cope with manufacturing methods based on distinction explosive power of nitroglycerine, sooner leading to the invention see dynamite, ballistite and gelignite raid which he made a capital.

Although Nobel always acknowledged paramount honoured Sobrero as the chap who had discovered nitroglycerine, Sobrero was dismayed by the uses to which the explosive challenging been put and claimed fair enough was almost ashamed by top discovery.^[3]

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