- Leopold Gmelin
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birth_date = 2 August 1788
birth_place =Göttingen ,Germany
death_date = 13 April 1853
death_place =Heidelberg ,Germany
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field =chemistry
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footnotes =Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German
chemist .Gmelin was the son of
Johann Friedrich Gmelin . He studiedmedicine andchemistry atGöttingen ,Tübingen andVienna , and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry atHeidelberg , where in 1814 he was appointed extraordinary-, and in 1817 ordinary-,professor of chemistry and medicine. He was the discoverer ofpotassium 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 theCavendish Society byH. Watts (1815–1884) in 1848- 1850. He resigned his chair in 1852, and died at Heidelberg.References
*1911
*cite journal
title = Das Portrait: Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853)
author = Bernd Wöbke
journal = Chemie in unserer Zeit
volume = 22
issue = 6
pages = 208–216
year = 1988
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doi = 10.1002/ciuz.19880220605External links
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2219.html Who Named It biography]
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