Friedrich stromeyer biography
Friedrich stromeyer biography
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Friedrich Stromeyer
German chemist (1776–1835)
Friedrich StromeyerFRS(For)FRSE (2 August 1776 – 18 August 1835) was a German chemist. He was the discoverer of cadmium.
From 1982, the Friedrich Stromeyer Prize has been awarded for chemical achievement in Germany.[1]
Biography
He was born in Göttingen on 2 August 1776[2] the eldest son of Dr Ernerst Johann Friedrich Stromeyer, professor of medicine at Göttingen University, and his wife, Marie Magdalena Johanne von Blum.[3]
Stromeyer studied Chemistry and Medicine at Göttingen and Paris and received an MD degree from the University of Göttingen in 1800, studying under Johann Friedrich Gmelin and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin.
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He was then a professor at the university, and also served as an inspector of apothecaries. His students included Robert Bunsen.[4]
In 1817, whilst studying compounds of zinc carbonate, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium.
Cadmium is a common impurity of zinc co