biography
| name: |
Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
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pronunciation:
[doeberiyner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1780–1849)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Bug bei Hof, EC Germany. Professor at Jena from 1810, he is remembered as the inventor of Döbereiner's lamp, in which hydrogen, produced in the lamp by the action of sulphuric acid on zinc, burns on contact with a platinum sponge. |
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