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Heinrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Heintz

1817–80

German chemist. Studied pharmacy in Berlin, 1834–6; state qualification in pharmacy, 1842. Doctorate in natural science, Berlin, 1844; habilitated in chemistry, 1846. Professor extraordinarius of chemistry, Halle, 1850; professor, 1855. Member of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Halle (Natural Science Society of Halle); committee member, 1879.

Sources

BHGW

Catalogus professorum halensis, www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/heintzheinrichwilhelm.html (accessed 23 March 2018)

DAR 229: 76

Bibliography

BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.

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