See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

VICTOR 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)
• VICTOR MEYER (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

MEYER (1848-1897)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the 8th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1848, and studied at See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg University under R . W . See also:

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

Bunsen, H . F . M . See also:

• KOPP, HERMANN FRANZ MORITZ (1817-1892)

Kopp, G . R . See also:

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

Kirchhoff and H . L . F . See also:

• HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON (1821-1894)

Helmholtz . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty he entered J .

F . W . A . See also:

• BAEYER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM ADOLF VON (1835– )

Baeyer's laboratory at Berlin, attacking among other problems that of the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of camphor . In 1871, on Baeyer's recommendation, he was engaged by II. von See also:

• FEHLING, HERMANN VON (1812—1885)

Fehling as his assistant at See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart See also:

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

Polytechnic, but within a See also:

• YEAR

year he See also:

• LEFT

left to succeed J . See also:

• WISLICENUS, JOHANNES (1835-1902)

Wislicenus at See also:

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

Zurich . There he remained for thirteen years, and it was during this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period that he devised hiswell-known method for determining vapour densities, and carried out his experiments on the See also:

• DISSOCIATION

dissociation of the See also:

• HALOGENS

halogens . In 1882, on the See also:

• DEATH

death of W . Weith (1844-1881), See also:

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

professor of See also:

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

chemistry at Zurich University, he undertook to continue the lectures on See also:

• BENZENE, C6H6

benzene derivatives, and this led him to the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of See also:

• THIOPHEN, C4H4S

thiophen . In 1885 he was chosen to succeed Hans See also:

• HUBNER, EMIL (1834-1901)
• HUBNER, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, COUNT (1811-1892)

Hubner (1837-1884) in the professorship of chemistry at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, where stereo-chemical questions especially engaged his See also:

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

attention; and in 1889, on the resignation of his old See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, Bunsen, he was appointed to 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 in Heidelberg . He died on the 8th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1897 . In recognition of his brilliant experimental See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, and his numerous contributions to chemical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, he was awarded the See also:

• DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY

Davy See also:

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

medal by the Royal Society in 1891 .