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SCHONBEIN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1799-1868)

SCHONBEIN, See also:
CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)
CHRISTIAN See also:
FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
FRIEDRICH (1799-1868) , chemist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Metzingen, See also:

SWABIA, SUABIA

Swabia, on the 18th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1799, and died at Sauersberg, near See also:

Baden Baden, on the 29th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1868. After studying at See also:

TUBINGEN

Tubingen and See also:

ERLANGEN

Erlangen, he taught See also:

chemistry and physics, first at Keilhau, Thuringia, and then at See also:

EPSOM

Epsom, See also:

England, but most of his See also:

LIFE

life was spent at See also:

Basel, where he undertook the duties of the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry and physics in 1828 and was appointed full See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in 1835. His name is chiefly known in connexion with See also:

OZONE

ozone, which he began to investigate in 1839, and with See also:

GUNCOTTON

guncotton, which he prepared and applied as a propellant in See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-arms See also:

early in 1846. He was a most prolific writer, 364 papers appearing under his name in the Royal Society's See also:

CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

Catalogue, and he carried on a large See also:

correspondence with other men of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, such as See also:

BERZELIUS, JONS JAKOB (1779-1848)

Berzelius, See also:

FARADAY, MICHAEL (1791-1867)

Faraday, See also:

LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON, BARON (1803-1873)

Liebig and See also:

WOHLER, FRIEDRICH (1800-1882)

Wohler. Many of his letters together with a life will be found in G. W. A. Kahlbaum's Monographien aus der Geschichte der Chemie, vols. iv. and vi. (1899 and 1901).

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