Jan Willem Gunning

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Jan Willem Gunning

Jan Willem Gunning (born  September 22, 1827 in Vlaardingen , †  January 7, 1900 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch chemist . From 1865 he worked as a professor at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam and from 1877 at its successor institution, the University of Amsterdam , and devoted himself in particular to investigations into the extraction and analysis of different types of sugar .

Life

Jan Willem Gunning was born in Vlaardingen in 1827 and studied medicine from 1845 and later chemistry at the University of Utrecht , where he worked as an assistant from 1849 and, after his doctorate on June 20, 1853, as a lecturer . Five years later he became a lecturer at the Technical School in Utrecht . One of his students here was Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , who also lived in Gunnings house for a time.

In 1862 he was appointed Rijksadviseur for scientific problems. From April 1865 he was professor of pharmacology at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam , from which the University of Amsterdam emerged in 1877 , where he was appointed full professor of chemistry when it was founded.

Jan Willem Gunning was married from 1858 and was the father of two sons and three daughters. He died in Amsterdam in 1900.

Scientific work

Jan Willem Gunning, who was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences from 1875 , was particularly interested in studies of various types of sugar , their extraction and methods for their qualitative and quantitative determination. In addition, he dealt with water analysis for questions of public hygiene .

Works (selection)

  • Wat men uit zeewater maken kan.Haarlem 1857
  • Leerboek the Sheikund. Schoonhoven 1858–1864
  • De Beginselen the general sheikund. Schoonhoven 1873–1879
  • Saccharimetry en suikerbelasting. Amsterdam 1875

literature

  • Biographical communications. In: Karl von Fritsch (ed.): Nunquam Otiosus. Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldina-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher. Year 1900, issue 36. Halle 1900, p. 48
  • Mulder and Gunning. In: Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Brigitte van Tiggelen: The public Image of Chemistry. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore 2007, ISBN 9-81-277584-6 , pp. 173-177
  • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff : In Memoriam - Jan Willem Gunning. Born September 22, 1827, † January 7, 1900. In: Willem Paulinus Jorissen, L. Th. Reicher: JH Van't Hoff's Amsterdam period 1877–1895. C. de Boer, Den Helder 1912, pp. 55-62

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Departure into the interior of matter. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2002, pp. 22/23, ISBN 3-423-30836-2
personal data
SURNAME Gunning, Jan Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Vlaardingen
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1900
Place of death Amsterdam