A Brief Biography of Pierre Alfred Laurent: A Distinguished Chemist from the Instituto Superior Técnico

Abstract

Pierre Alfred Laurent was born in Saint-Louis (Upper-Rhine) in 1909 in France. It is known that he was an important chemist in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, in the early 1950s, through an invitation made by the Portuguese Government, Pierre Laurent came to Lisbon in order to teach all subjects about organic chemistry to students of chemical Engineering course at Instituto Superior Técnico (the largest engineering school in Portugal) [1].