Eugène Millon

Eugène Auguste Nicolas Millon (24 April 1812 – 22 October 1867) was a French chemist and physician.

He is remembered in the name of Millon's reagent which reacts with tyrosine in proteins to form a brown precipitate.

Millon was born in Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye and after his education, he taught briefly at the Collège Rollin after before training in medicine at the military hospital at Val-de-Grâce from 1832 to 1835.

His most well-known contribution was the reaction of mercury and nitric acid with egg albumen which produces a white precipitate that turns red on heating.

His other contributions were on compounds of chlorine and iodine including the acids.