Friedrich Stromeyer
| Friedrich Stromeyer | |
|---|---|
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Friedrich Stromeyer | |
| Born |
2 August 1776 Göttingen |
| Died |
18 August 1835 (aged 59) Göttingen |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor |
Johann Friedrich Gmelin Louis Nicolas Vauquelin |
| Doctoral students |
Robert Bunsen Eilhard Mitscherlich |
| Known for | Cadmium |
| Influenced | Leopold Gmelin |
Friedrich Stromeyer (2 August 1776 – 18 August 1835) was a German chemist. Stromeyer received an MD degree from the University of Göttingen in 1800, studying under Johann Friedrich Gmelin and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He was then a professor at the university, and also served as an inspector of apothecaries.
While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.
In 1819 he was the first scientist to describe the mineral eudialyte.[1] In 1832 the mineral stromeyerite was named in his honor by mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant.[2]
References
- Lockemann, Georg; Oesper, Ralph E. Friedrich Stromeyer and the history of chemical laboratory instruction, J. Chem. Ed. 1953, 30, pp. 202–204.
- I. Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd Ed.), Doubleday, 1982, pp. 276–277.
- M.E. Weeks, Discovery of the Elements (7th Ed.), Leicester, H. M., Ed., J. Chem. Ed., 1968, pp. 502–508.
- J. R. Partington, A History of Chemistry, Macmillan, 1962, vol. 3, pp. 659–660.
- Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 5, p. 566.
- ↑ Rare Earths Industry: Technological, Economic, and Environmental Implications edited by Ismar Borges De Lima, Walter Leal Filho
- ↑ Stromeyerite Mindat.org