biography
| name: |
Kolbe, (Adolph Wilhelm) Hermann
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pronunciation:
[kolbuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–84)
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| biography:
| Scientist, born near Göttingen, C Germany. He studied chemistry under Wöhler and Bunsen, succeeded Bunsen as professor at Marburg (1851), and moved to Leipzig (1865–84). An outstanding teacher and experimenter, he did much in the development of organic chemical theory, and was one of the first to synthesize an organic compound from inorganic materials. |
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