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MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)

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MEYER, See also:VICTOR (1848-1897) , See also:German chemist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 8th of See also:September 1848, and studied at See also:Heidelberg University under R. W. See also:Bunsen, H. F. M. See also:Kopp, G. R. See also:Kirchhoff and H. L. F. See also:Helmholtz. At the See also:age of twenty he entered J.

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Baeyer's laboratory at Berlin, attacking among other problems that of the See also:composition of camphor. In 1871, on Baeyer's recommendation, he was engaged by II. von See also:Fehling as his assistant at See also:Stuttgart See also:Polytechnic, but within a See also:year he See also:left to succeed J. See also:Wislicenus at See also:Zurich. There he remained for thirteen years, and it was during this See also:period that he devised hiswell-known method for determining vapour densities, and carried out his experiments on the See also:dissociation of the See also:halogens. In 1882, on the See also:death of W. Weith (1844-1881), See also:professor of See also:chemistry at Zurich University, he undertook to continue the lectures on See also:benzene derivatives, and this led him to the See also:discovery of See also:thiophen. In 1885 he was chosen to succeed Hans See also:Hubner (1837-1884) in the professorship of chemistry at See also:Gottingen, where stereo-chemical questions especially engaged his See also:attention; and in 1889, on the resignation of his old See also:master, Bunsen, he was appointed to the See also:chair of chemistry in Heidelberg. He died on the 8th of See also:August 1897. In recognition of his brilliant experimental See also:powers, and his numerous contributions to chemical See also:science, he was awarded the See also:Davy See also:medal by the Royal Society in 1891.

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