Hugo Müller (chemist)

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Hugo Heinrich Wilhelm Müller (born July 29, 1833 in Tirschenreuth , Upper Palatinate ; † May 23, 1915 at his country estate at Crosby Hill near Camberley , Surrey ) was a German - English chemist .

Life

Born in Tirschenreuth, Hugo Müller, the son of a spinning mill owner , began studying geology with Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen at the University of Leipzig in 1850 after completing his schooling in Nuremberg . A short time later he moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he took among others, Friedrich Wohler , the study of chemistry in which he in 1853 with the promotion of Dr. phil. completed.

Hugo Müller then took up an assistant position at Justus von Liebig in Munich . In 1854 he moved to London , where he got a job with the chemist, inventor and amateur astronomer Warren de La Rue . In 1873 he was employed as a partner in the paper mill and state printing company Thomas de la Rue. Hugo Müller, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Andrews , a lifelong member and former President of the Chemical Society in London, died suddenly in May 1915 of a heart attack on his country estate at Crosby Hill near Camberley.

The internationally recognized expert for dyes and pigments presented malonic acid for the first time in 1864 with Hermann Kolbe .

Publications

  • together with Warren de la Rue: On the resin of Ficus rubiginosa, and a new homologue of benzylic alcohol, London, 1860
  • together with Warren de la Rue: Ueber terephthalic acid and the derivatives thereof, in: Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, volume 121, number 1, CF Winter, Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1862, pp. 86-93.
  • Plant fibers and their preparation for technology, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1876
  • together with Warren de la Rue: Experimental researches on the electric discharge with the chloride of silver battery, Royal Society, London, 1878
  • together with Warren de la Rue: On the Height of the Aurora Borealis, in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 30, Royal Society, London, 1879, pp. 332-334.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Hugo Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirschenreuth , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1915
Place of death Crosby Hill Country Estate at Camberley , Surrey