Eberhard Rimbach

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Friedrich Eberhard Rimbach (born December 26, 1852 in Jülich ; † November 3, 1933 in Bonn ) was a German chemist and university professor.

Eberhard Rimbach was born the son of a pharmacist and, after graduating from high school, studied pharmacy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a state examination. He received his doctorate there in 1876 with Adolf Claus with a thesis on thiourea .

Then he initially took over his father's pharmacy. After autodidactic studies, he went to Hans Heinrich Landolt at the Agricultural University in Berlin in 1889 . With this he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1891 , where he completed his habilitation in 1892 with a thesis on the atomic weight of boron. In 1898 he was appointed department head for analytical chemistry and professor at the Chemical Institute of the University of Bonn , in 1904 as associate professor for analytical, special inorganic and physical chemistry and in 1911 as full honorary professor. He gave up the job in 1913 due to illness.

Rimbach wrote several textbooks in addition to his teaching activities. His research areas were inorganic and physical chemistry, in particular the electrical conductivity of dissolved salts, optically active compounds and the properties of double salts and complex salts .

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SURNAME Rimbach, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimbach, Friedrich Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Jülich
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1933
Place of death Bonn