Darwin Correspondence Project

 German organic chemist . Student of Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen; assistant to Liebig, 1843. Director, Royal College of Chemistry, London, 1845–65. Professor of chemistry, Berlin University, 1865–92. Founded the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1867. FRS 1851.

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 11,12