# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alphonse-chevallier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:29.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alphonse-chevallier"
name: "Alphonse Chevallier"
slug: "alphonse-chevallier"
description: "Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Chevallier was a French chemist who contributed to public health through techniques for the detection of adulteration of food and medicine. He also contributed to forensic medicine and toxicology. His major contribution was a two volume work Dictionnaire des altérations et falsifications des substances alimentaires, medicamenteuses et commerciales (1850-52) on adulteration and its detection."
tagline: "French pharmacist (1793-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Chevallier_portrait.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1793-07-19"
deathDate: "1879-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.71
  momentum:             9
  historical:           4.135169333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse_Chevallier"
    title: "Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Chevallier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chevallier"
    title: "Alphonse Chevallier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%2C_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Шевалье, Жан-Батист Альфонс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Alphonse_Chevallier"
    title: "Jean Baptiste Alphonse Chevallier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5607620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump