Wilhelm Dittmar
Wilhelm Dittmar (born April 14, 1833 in Umstadt , † March 10, 1892 in Glasgow ) was a German-British chemist .
1861-69 he was chief assistant at the laboratory of the University of Edinburgh under Lyon Playfair , from 1871 assistant to Heinrich Ritthausen at the agricultural chemical research institute in Poppelsdorf . It was also Ritthausen who prompted Dittmar to clarify the structure of the amino acid glutamic acid discovered by Ritthausen in 1866 . In 1873 Dittmar went to Owen's College (now the University of Manchester ) as an assistant lecturer . In 1874 he became professor of chemistry at Anderson's College of Medicine in Glasgow.
After the Challenger expedition, he examined the 77 water samples for chlorides, sulfates, magnesium, calcium and potassium.
In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
Fonts
- Report on the composition of ocean water: The Physics and chemistry of the voyage of HMSChallenger
literature
- Alexander Crum Brown : W. Dittmar ; In Nature, March 24, 1892, p. 493
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Dittmar, On the reduction of glutanic acid by hydrogen iodide, J Prakt Chem, Volume 5 (7), p. 308ff (1872)
- ↑ S. Hansen, Berlin 2015, Discovery of Amino Acids
- ^ William Otto Henderson: The life of Friedrich Engels , Volume 1, p. 296
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 21, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dittmar, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dittmar, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Umstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1892 |
| Place of death | Glasgow |