Constanzo Benedetto Bonvicino, (Latinized as Constantius Benedictus Bonvicinus, and also known as Bonvoisin[1]) (1739 – 25 January 1812) was an Italian chemist.
Bonvicino was born in Centallo in a wealthy family and was educated in medicine and chemistry at the University of Turin (1765) after which he became a professor of natural history and pharmaceutical chemistry in 1800. He took an interest in mineralogy, studying opals, and in a range of chemical studies including analyses of water, fungal toxins, methods to detect iron. He was also among the early Italian chemists to criticize the phlogiston theory.[2]
References edit
- ^ "L'insegnamento della chimica in Piemonte dalla fine del Settecento all'Ottocento". Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (in Italian). Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Gaudiano, Aldo (1971). "Bonvicino, Constanzo Benedetto". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 12 (in Italian).