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VICTOR See also: German chemist, was See also: born at Berlin on the 8th of See also: September 1848, and studied at See also: Heidelberg University under R
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W
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See also: Bunsen, H
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F
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M
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Kopp, G
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R
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Kirchhoff and H
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L
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F
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Helmholtz
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At the age of twenty he entered J
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F . W . A . Baeyer's laboratory at Berlin, attacking among other problems that of the composition of camphor . In 1871, on Baeyer's recommendation, he was engaged by II. vonSee also: Fehling as his assistant at See also: Stuttgart Polytechnic, but within a See also: year he See also: left to succeed J
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See also: Wislicenus at Zurich
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There he remained for thirteen years, and it was during this See also: period that he devised hiswell-known method for determining vapour densities, and carried out his experiments on the See also: dissociation of the See also: halogens
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In 1882, on the See also: death of W
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Weith (1844-1881), professor of chemistry at Zurich University, he undertook to continue the lectures on See also: benzene derivatives, and this led him to the See also: discovery of See also: thiophen
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In 1885 he was chosen to succeed Hans Hubner (1837-1884) in the professorship of chemistry at See also: Gottingen, where stereo-chemical questions especially engaged his See also: attention; and in 1889, on the resignation of his old master, Bunsen, he was appointed to the chair of chemistry in Heidelberg
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He died on the 8th of See also: August 1897
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In recognition of his brilliant experimental See also: powers, and his numerous contributions to chemical science, he was awarded the See also: Davy medal by the Royal Society in 1891
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