Auguste-Arthur Plisson

Auguste-Arthur Plisson was a French chemist. Born in Orléans, 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, he won several awards from the School of Pharmacy of Paris, including a gold medal for chemistry in 1823, and was eventually recruited by Henry to work for the Central Pharmacy. 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.
By the late 1820s, Plisson had become chief pharmacist at Paris's Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1827, with Étienne-Ossian Henry, the son of his former tutor, he discovered aspartic acid.
Plisson died suddenly in 1832 as the result of an attack of cholera.