biography
| name: |
Zsigmondy, Richard (Adolf)
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pronunciation:
[zigmondee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1929)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Vienna Austria. He studied at Munich University, carried out research at Berlin, taught at Graz, and became professor at Göttingen (1908–29). A pioneer of colloid chemistry, in 1903 he introduced the ultramicroscope, a device to assist the observation of colloidal size particles which are too small to be visible in a normal microscope. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1925. |
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