Alfred Champagnat
From Graces Guide
1969 Research leader for BP.[1]
In the 1960s, researchers at British Petroleum developed what they called the "proteins-from-oil process": a technology for producing single-cell protein by yeast fed by waxy n-paraffins, a byproduct of oil refineries. Initial research work was done by Alfred Champagnat at BP's Lavera Oil Refinery in France; a small pilot plant there started operations in March in 1963, and the construction of the second pilot plant, at Grangemouth Oil Refinery in Britain, was authorized.[2]
1976 Won the UNESCO Science Prize "for his findings on the low-cost mass production of new proteins from petroleum."[3]
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