Thénard
Americannoun
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Eons later, in 1739, Louis-Jacques Thénard discovered how to make cobalt aluminate, better known as cobalt blue.
From Scientific American • Jul. 4, 2023
Chemist Louis Jacques Thénard created a synthetic version of the color in the early 1800s and it quickly became popular with artists like Vincent Van Gogh, who used it in “Starry Night.”
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022
Inspired by the blue glazes used on 18th century Sèvres porcelain, initially reserved for the aristocracy, chemist Louis Jacques Thénard developed a synthetic, vivid cobalt blue pigment making it affordable for the masses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2015
Thénard and St. Genys were quite delighted—and as they have seen it from the first and noted the improvement, that was reassuring.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
Alone, or in conjunction with other eminent men, particularly with M. Thénard and M. de Humboldt, he carried his spirit of investigation into them all.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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