- Malouin, Paul-Jacques
- SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 29 June 1701 Caen, Franced. 3 January 1778 Versailles, France[br]French medical practitioner who suggested producing tin plate with zinc.[br]Setting out to study law, Malouin turned to scientific studies, settling in Paris to teach and practice medicine. He retained his scientific interest in the field of chemistry, producing memoirs on zinc and tin, and. as early as 1742 suggested that a type of tin plate might instead be produced with zinc. A method of zinc-coating hammered-iron saucepans was introduced briefly at Rouen in the early 1780s.His contribution to early volumes of Diderot's Encyclopédie included those on "Alchemy", "Antimony", "Acid" and "Alkali". Malouin also applied his scientific knowledge to articles on milling and baking for the Academy in Descriptions des arts et métiers.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsElected to Academy 1742. FRS 1753.Further ReadingDumas, 1831, Treatise de chimie appliqué aux arts 3, 218.J.R.Partington, 1961, A History of Chemistry, Vol. III (refers to Malouin's work in chemistry).John Percy, 1864, Metallurgy: Iron and Steel, London: John Murray, 155 (provides brief references to his theories on zinc coatings).See also: Craufurd, Henry WilliamJD
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