He began studying science with his father when he was 13-year-old, and later studied Chemistry at the École Polytechnique under the chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Michel Eugène Chevreul.
The Anselme Payen Award is an annual prize named in honor for the distinguished French scientist who discovered cellulose, and pioneered in the chemistry of both cellulose and lignin.
Before Soxhlet, the French chemist Anselme Payen also pioneered with continuous extraction in the 1830s.
Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest | Anselme Payen | Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin | Anselme Bellegarrigue |