Balthazar Georges Sage
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Balthazar-Georges Sage was a French chemist who was a founder of the Paris Ecole Royale des Mines.
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Balthazar-Georges Sage was a French chemist who was a founder of the Paris Ecole Royale des Mines. He held a powerful position and was influential in preventing advances in chemistry in France by his insistence on supporting outdated ideas, such as the phlogiston theory, in the face of evidence to the contrary provided by his contemporaries who included Antoine Lavoisier. He also opposed reform in chemical naming. Some historians have called him a "false scholar".
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deceased
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Lived 1740 to 1824 · aged 84
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