The progress of scientific chemistry in our own times : with biographical notices / by William A. Tilden.

  • William A. Tilden
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1913
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    from 1877 to 1880. He was created K.O.B. in 1897 on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. [Obituary notice, by H. Macleod. Journ. Ghem. Soc., 87, 574 (1905).] Leopold Gmelin, born at Gottingen, 2nd Aug. 1788. Son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Professor of Medicine and Chemistry. Privat-docent, and thereafter Professor of Medicine and Chemis¬ try in the University of Heidelberg. Died at Heidelberg, 13th April 1853. [Obituary, Quart. Journ. Ghem. Soc., 7, 144 (1855).] Francis Robert Japp, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Aberdeen. Friedrich August Kekule was born at Darmstadt, 7th Sept. 1829. Began the study of architecture at Giessen, but having attended Liebig’s lectures was fascinated by the sub¬ ject. After a semester at the Polytechnic in Darmstadt he returned to Giessen and entered the University laboratory. In 1851 he went to Paris, attended Dumas’ lectures, and made the acquaintance of Gerhardt, by whom he was much in¬ fluenced. In 1854 he came to London as assistant to Stenhouse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. In 1856 he went to Heidel¬ berg as privat-docent, and in 1858 published his views on the linking of atoms. He was then appointed Professor of Chemistry in the University of Ghent. In 1867 he was appointed Professor in the University of Bonn, where he remained to the end. He died on 13th July 1896. [Kekule Memorial Lecture. F. R. Japp. Journ. Ghem. Soc., 73, 97 (1898).] Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, the son of a Lutheran pastor, was born near Gottingen, 27th Sept. 1818. He was a pupil of Wohler’s in the University of Gottingen from 1838 to 1842, when he went to Marburg as assistant to Bunsen. In 1845 lie came to England as assistant in Playfair’s laboratory at the Museum of Practical Geology in London. In 1851 he succeeded Bunsen at Marburg, and in 1861 he accepted the invitation of the University to the Chemical
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