Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
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Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (1721-1768) was a professor of botany and chemistry. He studied the chemistry of antimony
and wrote texts on the pancreatic ducts, on mineral waters, and on botany.
He was a brother of the famous traveler Johann George Gmelin, and was the father of the naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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He obtained his MD in 1742 at the University of Tübingen under Burchard Mauchart
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Antimony
Antimony is a toxic chemical element with the symbol Sb and an atomic number of 51. A lustrous grey metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite...
and wrote texts on the pancreatic ducts, on mineral waters, and on botany.
He was a brother of the famous traveler Johann George Gmelin, and was the father of the naturalist 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...
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He obtained his MD in 1742 at the University of Tübingen under Burchard Mauchart
Burchard Mauchart
Burchard David Mauchart was professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a pioneer in the field of ophthalmology. In 1748 he became one of the first to document the eye disorder now known as keratoconus. His surviving works are now to be found in the form of theses...
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