Pierre Adet

Pierre Adet
Pierre Auguste Adet
Born	May 17, 1767 Nevers
Died	March 19, 1848
Nationality	France
Influences	Lavoisier

Pierre-Auguste Adet (May 17, 1767 Nevers– March 19, 1848 Paris) was a French scientist, politician, and diplomat.

He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the scientific periodical Annales de chimie, founded in 1789. He proved that glacial acetic acid and vinegar acetic acid were the same substance.^[1]

He was secretary to the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, Jean Dalbarade. He was commissioner to Saint-Domingue. He later became French ambassador to the United States, He sent Georges-Henri-Victor Collot on a reconnaissance of the Ohio River, and Mississippi River.^[2]

In 1803, he was Prefect of the Nièvre département. In 1809, he was a member of the Corps législatif.

References

External links

• Adet's biography in the Dictionary of National Assembly Deputies (in French)

Further reading

• McDonald, E. (1970). "Adet, Pierre-August". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0-684-10114-9. 
• Conlin M. F.; Srikrishna, A. (2000). "The American mission of citizen Pierre-Auguste Adet: Revolutionary chemistry and diplomacy in the early republic". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 124 (4): 489–520. doi:10.1021/cr9403650. 

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