biography
| name: |
Beilstein, Friedrich Konrad
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pronunciation:
[bilstiyn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1838–1906)
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| biography:
| Encyclopedist of organic chemistry, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He studied chemistry in Germany, and was lecturer at Göttingen and later professor at St Petersburg from 1866. His name is synonymous with his Handbook of Organic Chemistry (1881), which formed a substantially complete catalogue of organic compounds. |
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