An English bibliotaph of fifty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Acting secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Pioneer of industrial chemistry
Anselme Payen died on this day 150 years ago. Among other things, he separated and named
diastase, the first known enzyme, from malt, and cellulose from
wood.
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