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GEORG LUNGE (1839- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORG

LUNGE (1839- )  , German chemist, was born at Breslau on the 15th of September 1839 . He studied at
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Heidelberg (under R . W . Bunsen) and Breslau, graduating at the latter university in 1859 . Turning his attention to technical chemistry, he became chemist at several
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works both in Germany and England, and in 1876 he was appointed professor of technicalchemistry at Zurich polytechnic . Lunge's
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original contributions cover a very wide field, dealing both with technical processes and analysis . In addition, he was a voluminous writer, enriching scientific literature with many standard works . His
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treatises
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Coal
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Tar and
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Ammonia (5th ed . 1909; rst ed . 1867), Destillation
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des Steinkohlentheers) and Sulphuric Acid and
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Alkali (1st ed . 1878, 4th ed . 1909), established his position as the highest authority on these subjects, while the Chemische-technische Untersuchungs-Methoden (1899-1900; Eng. trans.), to which he contributed, testified to his researches in technical analysis .

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jubilee was celebrated at Zurich on the 15th of September 1909 .

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