Eugène-Melchior Péligot, also known as Eugène Péligot, was a French chemist who isolated the first sample of uranium metal in 1841.
- Occupation
- chemist
- Position held
- president, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- February 24, 1811, March 24, 1811
- Died
- April 15, 1890