Peter Woulfe

Peter Woulfe (* 1727 ?; † 1803 ) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist who was the first to come up with the idea that wolframite could contain a previously unknown chemical element.

Woulfe reported that a yellow dye formed when indigo was treated with nitric acid . It was later discovered that he had synthesized picric acid , which was eventually used as a dye, explosive, and antiseptic for burns.

He is also the inventor of the Woulfe apparatus ( Woulfe bottle ), a two- or three-necked bottle that is mainly used as a condensation device for vapors and gases, but also to treat liquids with gases or to scrub gases.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Second volume M – Z. Published by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863.
^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885: Woulfesche bottle .

personal data
SURNAME	Woulfe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish chemist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1727
DATE OF DEATH	1803

[poggendorff-1] Johann Christian Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences. Second volume M – Z. Published by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1863.

[2] Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885: Woulfesche bottle .