Claus Wilhelm Gabriel Nylander
Claus Wilhelm Gabriel Nylander , also Claës Nylander, mostly abbreviated to CWG Nylander, (born July 26, 1835 in Byarum near Jönköping , † April 11, 1907 in Engelholm ) was a Swedish chemist. He was a regimental doctor in the Swedish army for a time and taught chemistry at Lund University . Nylander's reagent (1883), which was used to detect sugar ( glucose ) in urine, is named after him . Bismuth as a sample for sugar in urine had already been used by Rudolf Christian Böttger (1857), Francqui, de Vyvere and August Almén (1833–1903) (Uppsala, 1867), but it was also proven to cause blackening when no sugar was present (review with the Fehling sample ). Nylander was able to find a modification through numerous attempts that reacted more reliably and selectively to sugar. The sample was sometimes also named after Almén or Böttger.
He published the essay on the reagent named after him as Emil Nylander.
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nylander, Bidrag till kännedomen om zirkonjord , Lunds universitets årsskrift 1865
- ↑ Emil Nylander on alkaline bismuth solution as a reagent for glucose in urine , magazine for physiological chemistry. Volume 8, Issue 3, 1884, pages 175-185 abstract
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nylander, Claus Wilhelm Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nylander, Claes; Nylander, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Byarum |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1907 |
| Place of death | Engelholm |