Payen was the son of an entrepreneur who had started several chemical production factories. Payen studied chemistry first with his father and later with Nicolas Louis Vauquelin (1763-1829) and Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889). In 1815 Payen...

1795-1871 French chemist who made advances in the study of carbohydrates and enzymes. Payen developed a charcoal filter used to decolor sugar. He discovered diastase, an organic catalyst that converts starch to the sugar maltose and the first enzyme...

Anselme Payen (January 6, 1795 - May 12, 1871) was a French chemist. He was born in Paris, where his father started to give him scientific lessons at the age of 13. He studied then partly at the École Polytechnique with the best chemists. At the age of...