See also:

• JULIUS

JULIUS LOTHAR See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• JULIUS LOTHAR MEYER (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

MEYER (183o-1895)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on, the 19th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 183o, at Varel in See also:

• OLDENBURG

Oldenburg . He was the son of a physician, and went to study See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine first at See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich University in 1851, and then, two years later, at See also:

• WURZBURG

Wurzburg, where he had R . See also:

• VIRCHOW, RUDOLF (1821-1902)

Virchow as his teacher in See also:

• PATHOLOGY (from Gr. raBos, suffering)

pathology . The See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of C . F . W . See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

Ludwig, under whom he studied at Zurich, decided him to devote his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to physiological See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry, and therefore he went, after his See also:

• GRADUATION (see also GRADUATE)

graduation (1854), to See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, where R . See also:

• BUNSEN, CHRISTIAN CHARLES JOSIAS, BARON VON (1791-186o,)
• BUNSEN, ROBERT WILHELM VON (1811-1899)

Bunsen held the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry . There he was so influenced by G . R . See also:

• KIRCHHOFF, GUSTAV ROBERT (1824-1887)
• KIRCHHOFF, JOHANN WILHELM ADOLF (1826-1908)

Kirchhoff's mathematical teaching that he took up the study of mathematical physics at Kiinigsberg under F . E .

See also:

• NEUMANN, FRANZ ERNST (1798-1895)
• NEUMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1793-1870)

Neumann . In 1859 he became privat-docent in physics and chemistry at See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, where in the preceding See also:

• YEAR

year he had graduated as Ph . D. with a thesis on the See also:

• ACTION

action of See also:

• CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon monoxide on the See also:

• BLOOD

blood . In 1866 he accepted a See also:

• POST

post in the School of Forestry at See also:

• NEUSTADT (Polish, Prudnik)

Neustadt-See also:

• EBERSWALDE

Eberswalde, but soon moved to Carlsruhe See also:

• POLYTECHNIC (Gr. aroWus, many, and rEXvn, an art)

Polytechnic . During the Franco-German See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign the Poly-technic was used as a See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, and he took an active See also:

• PART

part in the care of the wounded . Finally, in 1876, he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of chemistry at See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen, where he died on the rrth of See also:

• APRIL

April 1895 . His name is best known for the See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share he had in the periodic See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification of the elements . He noted, as did J . A . R . New-lands in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, that if they are arranged in the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of their atomic weights they fall into See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups in which similar chemical and See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical properties are repeated at periodic intervals; and in particular he showed that if the atomic weights are plotted as ordinates and the atomic volumes as abscissae, the See also:

• CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve obtained presents a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• MAXIMA

maxima and minima, the most electro-See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive elements appearing at the peaks of the curve in the order of their atomic weights . His See also:

• BOOK

book on See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die modernen Theorien der Chemie, which was first published in Breslau in 1864, contains a discussion of relations between the atomic weights and the properties of the elements .

In 1882 he received from the Royal Society, at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as D . J . Mendeleeff, the See also:

• DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY

Davy See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal in recognition of his See also:

• WORK

work on the Periodic See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

Law . A younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother, O . E . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer, became professor of physics at Breslau in 1864 .