Friedrich Karl Georg Müller

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Friedrich Karl Georg Müller (also: Friedrich Carl Georg Müller ; born June 27, 1848 in Schöbber near Hameln , † July 16, 1931 in Falkenberg ) was a German teacher and chemist.

Life

He spent his childhood mainly on the manor mill that his parents had leased. After the father's death, the farm had to be sold. From the age of 16 he attended high school in Holzminden . In 1871 he was charged with an organic-preparative work at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg Dr. phil. PhD. In August 1871 he became a teacher for physics and chemistry at the secondary school in Osnabrück . A short time later he began a collaboration with the nearby steelworks in Georgsmarienhütte , for which he carried out analyzes of pig iron and steel. He made important discoveries, such as the iron carbide cementite , which is essential for steel properties , as well as the detection of gases in steel. In 1880 he moved to the Brandenburg Realgymnasium . He developed numerous teaching materials , including an apparatus for deriving the law of levers, a demonstration thermometer, a balance galvanometer as well as a gas analyzer and an ignition tube for combustion studies. In 1893 he was appointed high school professor.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. see Klaus Ruthenberg:  Müller, Friedrich Carl Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 379 ( digitized version ).