Background
He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons.
He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons.
Bourqelot became the Chief Pharmacist at the Laënnec Hospital in 1887, where he established a laboratory to conduct his research into carbohydrate chemistry. Bourquelot and other French pharmacists pioneered the study of plant glycosides, molecules in which a sugar is bound to a non-carbohydrate part. They developed methods to stabilize these compounds in solution, and detect them enzymatically.
He died at the age of 70 on January 26, 1921, from pneumonia.