Background
Auguste-Nicolas-Eugène Millon was born on April 24, 1812, in Châlons-sur-marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France to the family of a transport entrepreneur Henry-August de Millon de Chateaurieux and Marie-Elisabeth-Joseph-Louise Thibault.
75005 Paris, France
In 1836 Millon received the Doctor of Medicine from the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
75005 Paris, France
In 1836 Millon received the Doctor of Medicine from the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
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1845
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Auguste-Nicolas-Eugène Millon was born on April 24, 1812, in Châlons-sur-marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France to the family of a transport entrepreneur Henry-August de Millon de Chateaurieux and Marie-Elisabeth-Joseph-Louise Thibault.
After completing his secondary education in Chàlons-sur-Marne Millon decided on a medical career in the army. In 1832 he was admitted as a student to the Val-de-Gràce military teaching hospital in Paris, and two years later he qualified for active duty as a surgeon. He served successively in Bitche, Lyons, Algeria, and Metz; in 1836 he received the Doctor of Medicine from the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
Millon first worked as a teaching assistant at the Collège Rollin in Paris, Millon decided on a medical career in the army. After graduating from Val-de-Gràce military teaching hospital in Paris in 1834 he served successively in Bitche, Lyons, Algeria, and Metz. Millon’s long interest in chemistry prompted him, however, to take up military pharmacy rather than surgery and medicine. A brief appointment as préparateur and tutor at the Val-de-Gràce was followed by a tour of duty at several military installations, and finally by a professorship of chemistry at the Val-de-Gràce in 1841. During the next six years, Millon established himself as an outstanding chemist and teacher. Probably because of his unorthodox views, he was abruptly transferred in 1847 as a professor to the military teaching hospital in Lille, which not only separated him from his students and friends but also seriously disrupted his scientific work. From 1850 until his retirement in 1865, he served as the top-ranking pharmacist for the French army in Algeria.
The years from 1837 to 1847, scientifically the most important period of Millon’s life were devoted largely to basic chemistry. His circle of friends and occasional collaborators included Pelouze, J. Reiset, F. Hoefer, Regnault, Louis Laveran, and F.J.J. Nicklès. Particularly noteworthy at this time were his studies of the nitrides of bromine, iodine, and cyanogen; of oxides of chlorine and iodine; of reactions of nitric acid on metals and of mercury salts with ammonia; and the investigation with J. Reiset of the nature of catalytic reactions. It was also during this decade that Millon discovered iodine dioxide, chlorites, ethyl nitrate, and the production of potassium iodate. In 1845 he launched the Annuaire de chimie with Reiset (in collaboration with Hoefer and Nicklés), seven volumes of which appeared before it was discontinued in 1851. Millon’s lectures at the Val-de-Gràce formed the basis for his two-volume treatise, Elèments de chimie organique.
Millon showed in 1848 that urea could be quantitatively analyzed by decomposing it with nitrous acid and determining the amount of carbon dioxide released. In 1849 he published his discovery of a sensitive reagent for detecting proteins made by dissolving mercury in concentrated nitric acid and diluting with water, which proved effective in the presence of tyrosine. Among the varied projects he pursued in Algeria were the extraction of perfumes from Algerian flowers, the chemistry of nitrification, the raising and commerce of leeches, quality control of milk, the study of alcoholic fermentation, and the analysis of mineral water.
After 1847 the direction and emphasis of Millon’s scientific work changed, becoming more applied and diffuse. He devoted considerable time to studying wheat, especially its classification, constituents, conservation, and processing.
Auguste-Nicolas-Eugène Millon was a member of the Lille Academy of Sciences.
There is no information on whether Auguste-Nicolas-Eugène Millon was ever married or had any children.
