Wilhelm Boettger
Wilhelm Carl Böttger (born October 2, 1871 in Leisnig , † October 23, 1949 in Hanover ) was a German chemist .
Life
His father was the cloth manufacturer Heinrich Hermann Böttger (1829–1910). Carl Wilhelm Böttger completed practical training as a pharmacist in Chemnitz, Berlin and Switzerland and then studied pharmacy from 1893 and chemistry from 1895 in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1897. Then he was assistant to Otto Wallach in Göttingen and then until 1937 assistant in Leipzig and later head of department at the Physico-Chemical Institute under Wilhelm Ostwald and Max Le Blanc . In 1903 he completed his habilitation in analytical and physical chemistry and then went to Boston as a research associate at the Institute of Technology in 1904/05. In 1910 he became associate professor in Leipzig and in 1922 full professor of analytical chemistry. In 1938 he retired. In 1932 Böttger was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy .
plant
He is known for applying knowledge of physical chemistry to analytical chemistry and determined the limits of qualitative detection methods such as color indicators. He continued the development of potentiometric titration , introduced by Robert Behrend , introduced liquid mercury electrodes into analysis and developed electroanalytical separation methods. At Riedel-de Haën , from 1922 he supervised the production of the custom -made solutions called Fixanal .
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 58
- Georg Lockemann: Böttger, Carl Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 411 ( digitized version ).
Fonts
- Outline of Qualitative Analysis from the Viewpoint of the Doctrine of Ions, 1902
Web links
- Wilhelm Böttger in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Wilhelm Böttger's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1904 to summer semester 1914)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the assistance of Heinz Cassebaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 58, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böttger, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Böttger, Carl Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quietly |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1949 |
| Place of death | Hanover |