1802–1887 French chemist, and pioneer in nutritional research.
Keywords: nutrition research; nitrogen metabolism; fat synthesis
Boussingault, Jean Baptiste
KJ Carpenter, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003420
| Further Reading | |
| book Boussingault JB (1865) Rural Economy: in its Relationship with Chemistry, Physics and Meteorology. New York: O. Judd. | |
| Cowgill GB (1964) Jean Baptiste Boussingault – a biographical sketch. Journal of Nutrition 84: 3–9. | |
| book McCosh FWJ (1984) Boussingault, Chemist and Agriculturalist. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel. | |
