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| Antoine Alexandre Brutus Bussy [1794-1882] |
| a French chemist who primarily studied pharmaceuticals. |
| In 1831 he published the 'Memoire sur le Radical metallique de la Magnesie' where he described a method of preparing magnesium by heating magnesium chloride and potassium in a glass tube. When the potassium chloride was washed out, small globules of magnesium remained. |
| Bussy and Friedrich Wohler are each credited with independently isolating the element beryllium in August 1828 by reacting potassium and beryllium chloride. |