Max Delbrück (chemist)
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Max Emil Julius Delbrück (16 June 1850 Bergen auf Rügen
Bergen auf Rügen
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 – 4 May 1919 Berlin
Berlin
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) was a German
Germany
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 agricultural chemist
Agricultural chemistry
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Biography

He was born in Bergen. He studied chemistry in Berlin
Humboldt University of Berlin
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 and in Greifswald. In 1872 he was made assistant at the Academy of Trades in Berlin; in 1887 he was appointed instructor at the Agricultural College, and in 1899 was given a full professorship. The researches, carried out in part by Delbrück himself, in part under his guidance, resulted in technical contributions of the highest value to the fermentation industries
Brewing
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. He was one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Spiritusindustrie (1867), and of the Wochenschrift für Brauerei.

Family

He was a brother of Hans Delbrück
Hans Delbrück
Hans Delbrück was a German historian. Delbrück was one of the first modern military historians, basing his method of research on the critical examination of ancient sources, the use of auxiliary disciplines, like demography and economics, to complete the analysis and the comparison between...

, and therefore an uncle of the physicist Max Delbrück
Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire...

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