Franz Leopold Sonnenschein
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Franz Leopold Sonnenschein (July 13, 1817 – February 26, 1879) was a German
chemist
from Cologne
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He taught himself pharmacy and, in the 1830s, established a small laboratory in Berlin
. He studied with a physician and other pharmacists for the state examination. At the same time he studied chemistry and established himself,in 1852, as a private lecturer. He dedicated himself to analytic chemistry and involved himself in practical activities, for which he gained a reputation unlike any chemist before him. Many technical enterprises owed their success to him. He promoted analytic and judicial chemistry by numerous scientific investigations. He died while a professor at the University of Berlin.
Germany
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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...
from Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
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He taught himself pharmacy and, in the 1830s, established a small laboratory in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. He studied with a physician and other pharmacists for the state examination. At the same time he studied chemistry and established himself,in 1852, as a private lecturer. He dedicated himself to analytic chemistry and involved himself in practical activities, for which he gained a reputation unlike any chemist before him. Many technical enterprises owed their success to him. He promoted analytic and judicial chemistry by numerous scientific investigations. He died while a professor at the University of Berlin.
Works
His most notable works include:- Anleitung zur chemischen Analyse (Guidance for the Chemical Analysis) (1852)
- Anleitung zur quantitativen chemischen Analyse (Guidance for the Quantitative Chemical Analysis) (1864)
- Handbuch der gerichtlichen Chemie (Manual of Judicial Chemistry) (1881)
- Handbuch der analytischen Chemie (Manual of Analytic Chemistry) (1870-71)