biography
| name: |
Achard, Franz (Karl)
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pronunciation:
[ashah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1753–1821)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Berlin, Germany. He took up Andreas Marggraf's discovery of sugar in beet, and perfected a process for its extraction on a commercial scale, then in 1801 opened the first beet sugar factory, in Silesia. |
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