Leopold Gmelin
Leopold Gmelin | |
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 Leopold Gmelin | |
| Born | 2 August 1788 |
| Died | 13 April 1853 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | German |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg, |
Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist.
Gmelin was the son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin. He studied medicine and chemistry at Göttingen, Tübingen and Vienna, and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg, where in 1814 he was appointed extraordinary-, and in 1817 ordinary-, professor of chemistry and medicine. He was the discoverer of potassium ferricyanide (1822), and wrote the Handbuch der Chemie (first edition 1817–1819, 4th ed. 1843-1855), an important work in its day, which was translated into English for the Cavendish Society by H. Watts (1815–1884) in 1848- 1850. He resigned his chair in 1852, and died in Heidelberg.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Bernd Wöbke (1988). "Das Portrait: Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853)". Chemie in unserer Zeit. 22 (6): 208–216. doi:10.1002/ciuz.19880220605.
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