Wilhelm Lommel

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Fritz Wilhelm Lommel (born September 17, 1875 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , † June 29, 1968 ) was a German chemist at Bayer. He recognized with Wilhelmstein head the military potential of the chemical warfare agent Lost ( mustard gas ), named after the initials of William Lommel (LO) and Wilhelm Steinkopf (ST) from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute . The chemical itself had been synthetically produced since 1822 and was used for the last time militarily in Iraq in 1988.

Individual evidence

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