William Francis Hillebrand

William Francis Hillebrand

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name = William Francis Hillebrand


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birth_date = birth date|1853|12|12
birth_place = Honululu United States
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nationality = American
death_date = death date and age|1925|2|7|1818|11|26
death_place = United States
field = geochemistry
work_institution = United States Geological Survey
National Bureau of Standards
alma_mater = University of Heidelberg
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William Francis Hillebrand (December 12 1853February 7 1925) was an American chemist. He was the son of the renowned botanist William Hillebrand.

He studied in Germany at the University of Heidelberg and after he received his Ph.D in 1875 he worked with Robert Bunsen for two semesters. His research on metallic cerium which he togeter with Thomas Norton obtained first in 1872 stared his academic career.

He studied thre semesters organic chemistry with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig at the University of Straßburg, but changed to geochemistry and metallurgy by studying at the Freiberg Mining Academy. After returning home to the United States he started working at the United States Geological Survey in 1880. He changed to the National Bureau of Standards in 1909

During an analysis of the uranium containing mineral uranite he discovered that a gas evolved. He identified this gas by spectroscopic methods to be nitrogen. Several years later in 1895 William Ramsey did similar experiments with uranium containing minerals and discovered by similar methods that the gas was a mixture of argon and helium which was until then only known to exist in the corona of stars.

A reexamination of the samples of Hillebrand by Ramsay showed that the gas from uranite contained a large amount of nitrogen.

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title = William Francis Hillebrand
author = Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
journal = Biographical Memoir of the National Academy of Science
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