Édouard Grimaux

Louis Édouard Grimaux (3 July 1835, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 2 May 1900, Paris) was a French chemist, known for his research in the area of organic synthesis.

[1] In 1873 he became sub-director in the laboratory of advanced studies at the Sorbonne, and three years later, was appointed professor of general chemistry at the Institute of Agronomy.

In 1881 he was the successor of Auguste André Thomas Cahours at the École Polytechnique,[2] but was forced to relinquish his professorship in 1898 due to his support regarding the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus.

[1][3] His research included studies of nitrites, allantoin, aromatic glycols and on the synthesis of citric acid.

[3] Also, he conducted extensive research on the properties of numerous uric acid derivatives.