Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
Born	October 20, 1826(1826-10-20) Växjö, Småland, Sweden
Died	November 5, 1897(1897-11-05) (aged 71) Lund, Sweden
Institutions	University of Lund
Alma mater	University of Lund

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (20 October 1826 – 5 November 1897) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist.

Blomstrand was born in Växjö, Sweden and studied chemistry at the University of Lund, where he received his Ph.D in 1850 and his habilitation in 1854. After a expedition to Spitsbergen and a being a lecturer at the Elementary Technical School of Malmö.^[1][2] he became professor for chemistry 1862 at the University of Lund.

Blomstrand was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1861.

Publications

• Blomstrand, Kristian Vilhelm (1869). Die Chemie der Jetztzeit: vom Standpunkte der electrochemischen Auffassung, aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt. ISBN 9781144805102. http://books.google.de/books?id=Mm8MAQAAIAAJ. 
• Kemper, R. (1869). "Die Chemie der Jetztzeit vom Standpunkte der elektrochemischen Auffassung aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt von C. W. Blomstrand. XIV. u. 417 S. Heidelberg, Carl Winter 1869". Archiv der Pharmazie 189: 173. doi:10.1002/ardp.18691890162. 

References

1. ^ House Of Commons, Great Britain. Parliament (1869). House of Commons papers. http://books.google.de/books?id=PQwTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA5. 
2. ^ Klason, Peter (1897). "Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 30 (3): 3227. doi:10.1002/cber.189703003152. 

• Kauffman, George (1975). "Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (1826–1897) Swedish chemist and mineralogist". Annals of Science 32: 13. doi:10.1080/00033797500200541. 
• E. v. Meyer (1945). "Zur Erinnerung an Friedrich Stohmann und Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand". Journal für Praktische Chemie 56 (1): 397–400. doi:10.1002/prac.18970560131. 
• Weeks, Mary Elvira (1951). "The discovery of the elements: XVI. The rare earth elements". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (10): 1751–1773. Bibcode 1932JChEd...9.1751W. doi:10.1021/ed009p1751. 

Persondata
Name	Blomstrand , Christian Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description	Chemist
Date of birth	20 October 1826(1826-10-20)
Place of birth	Växjös, Sweden
Date of death	5 November 1897(1897-11-05)
Place of death	Lund, Sweden