Friedrich Strohmeyer
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Friedrich Stromeyer was a German
chemist
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Stromeyer received his degree from the University of Göttingen in 1800. He was then on the staff of the university and was also an inspector of apothecaries.
He received his MD doctorate in 1800 at the University of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Gmelin
and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
He discovered the element cadmium
in 1817 while studying zinc
compounds. Cadmium is an impurity in zinc compounds, although represented in very small quantities.
He was the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
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Stromeyer received his degree from the University of Göttingen in 1800. He was then on the staff of the university and was also an inspector of apothecaries.
He received his MD doctorate in 1800 at the University of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
Nicolas Louis Vauquelin , was a French pharmacist and chemist.-Early life:Vauquelin was born at Saint-André-d'Hébertot in Normandy, France. His first acquaintance with chemistry was gained as laboratory assistant to an apothecary in Rouen , and after various vicissitudes he obtained an introduction...
He discovered the element cadmium
Cadmium
Cadmium is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Similar to zinc, it prefers oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds and similar to mercury it shows a low...
in 1817 while studying zinc
Zinc
Zinc , or spelter , is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc is, in some respects, chemically similar to magnesium, because its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2...
compounds. Cadmium is an impurity in zinc compounds, although represented in very small quantities.
He was the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.