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Luigi Balbiano
was born in Turin on 23rd October 1852 and died on 8th March 1917 in Turin.
On 31st July 1874 Balbiano achieved the degree in Physics-Chemistry at the University of Turin and on 11th January 1880 the qualification for university teaching in Chemistry at the same University.
Assistant teacher and titular of Chemistry at the Technical Institute of Alexandria, in 1881 Balbiano was appointed as regular full professor of General Chemistry at the University of Messina and in 1882 director of Laboratory of General Chemistry of the same university.
In 1889 he was annually appointed with the office of professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and director at the School of Pharmacy in Messina University. In 1890 he was moved to Rome and Turin. From 1908 to the 1916 in Turin, Balbiano got the chair in Organic Chemistry.
He gave the name to an acid: Balbiano's acid, a simple derivative of the trimethylglutaric acid that the scientist derived from the camphoric acid, conferming in this way the chemical structure attributed to this latter by S. Bredt (1885).
Balbiano was a national member of the Academy of Lincei, a national resident member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin, a member of the Academy of Medicine in Rome, honorary member of different other Italian and foreign scientific societies.
The scientist left several works related to researches and studies made on olefins, mainly related to some given reactions, such as the one of the mercuric acetate.
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