Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz

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name = Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz


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birth_date = November 41817
birth_place = Germany
death_date = December 11880
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residence = Germany
nationality = German
field = Chemist and Physicist
work_institution = Berlin University
University of Halle
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doctoral_advisor = Heinrich Rose
doctoral_students = Johannes Wislicenus
known_for = Margaric acid
heptadecanoic acid
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
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Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (1817 – 1880) was a German structural chemist who earned his PhD at Berlin in 1844 under Heinrich Rose.He was one of six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the only chemist.

In 1853 he analyzed margaric acid as simply a combination of stearic acid and palmitic acid. [ C.G. Lehmann, Lehrbuch der physiologischen Chemie, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig (1853) p71.]

At Halle, Heintz supervised Johannes Wislicenus Ph.D .work, although Wislicenus' pro-forma advisor at Zurich was Georg Karl Andreas Städeler.

The mineral Heintzite is named for him.

References

* Partington, J. R. "A History of Chemistry"; Macmillan: 1964; vol 4, page 359.
* "Nature" (1881), vol 23, pages 245-246.
* "Chem. Ber". (1883), vol 16, pages 3121-3140.
* "Poggendorff" I: pages 1051-52
* "Lehrbuch der Zoochemie". Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, (1853)

External links

* [http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/heintzwh.pdf Academic genealogy]
* cite web
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* [http://www.mindat.org/min-26540.html Heintzite mineral information]
* [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft5g500723&chunk.id=d0e26594&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e22427&brand=eschol The Quiet Revolution] Persondata
NAME= Heintz, Wilhelm Heinrich
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= German Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH= 1817
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DATE OF DEATH= 1880
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