Friedrich Stromeyer

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name = Friedrich Stromeyer

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caption = Friedrich Stromeyer
birth_date = birth date|1776|8|2|df=y
birth_place = Göttingen, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1835|8|18|1776|8|2|df=y
death_place =
residence = Germany
nationality = German
field = Chemist
work_institution = University of Göttingen
alma_mater = University of Göttingen
doctoral_advisor = Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
doctoral_students = Robert Bunsen
Eilhard Mitscherlich
influences =
influenced = Leopold Gmelin
known_for = Cadmium
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Friedrich Stromeyer (1776 - 1835) was a German chemist. Stromeyer received his degree from the University of Gottingen 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.

References

* "J. Chem. Ed." 1953, 30, pp. 202-204.
* I. Asimov, "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology" (2nd Ed.), Doubleday, 1982,pp. 276-277.
* M.E. Weeks, "Discovery of the Elements" (7th Ed.), Leicester, H. M., Ed., "J. Chem. Ed.," 1968, pp. 502-508.
* J. R. Partington, "A History of Chemistry," Macmillan, 1962, "vol. 3", pp. 659-660.
* "Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte," Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 5, p. 566.

Persondata
NAME= Stromeyer, Friedrich
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= German Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH= 2 August, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH= Göttingen, Germany
DATE OF DEATH= 18 August, 1835
PLACE OF DEATH=