Auguste-Arthur Plisson

Auguste-Arthur Plisson (died August 1832^[1]) was a French chemist. Born in Orléans,^[1] Plisson was orphaned at an early age, but overcame the difficulties that caused him with the determination he brought to being a student of chemistry in Paris. Taught by Noël-Étienne Henry, chief of the Central Pharmacy of Paris Hospitals (Pharmacie centrale des hôpitaux de Paris, today the Agence générale des équipements et produits de santé),^[2] he won several awards from the School of Pharmacy of Paris, including a gold medal for chemistry in 1823,^[3] and was eventually recruited by Henry to work for the Central Pharmacy.^[2] After several years, during which he published a number of papers on chemical discoveries, he was appointed deputy chief. He was also a member of the Société de Pharmacie (today the Académie nationale de pharmacie).^[2]

By the late 1820s, Plisson had become chief pharmacist at Paris's Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.^[2] In 1827, with Étienne-Ossian Henry, the son of his former tutor, he discovered aspartic acid.^[4][5]

Plisson died suddenly in 1832 as the result of an attack of cholera.^[2]