Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered moissanite and contributed to the development of the electric arc furnace. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906, announced November 12, 1906. Henri Moissan, “in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him”. Henri Moissan: born 1852, Paris, France. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).