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Théodore Sidot

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Théodore Sidot was a French chemist who, in 1866, discovered the phosphorescence of zinc sulphide. He worked at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, as chemistry preparator. He was injured in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War at the Fort de Nogent. He received the 1883 Prix Trémont of the Académie des Sciences.[1]

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  1. ^ "Prix Trémont", Le Moniteur Scientifique, volume XXV, page 417, May 1883