Paul Vieille: The French Chemist Who Made Smokeless Powder Work

Paul Vieille: The French Chemist Who Made Smokeless Powder Work

Paul-Marie-Eugène Vieille was born on September 2, 1854, in Paris, France, and died there on January 14, 1934. In a working life spent largely inside a government laboratory, he solved one of the central technical problems of 19th-century warfare: ho