Friedrich Stromeyer

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Friedrich Stromeyer
Friedrich Stromeyer
Born	2 August 1776(1776-08-02) Göttingen, Germany
Died	18 August 1835 (aged 59)
Residence	Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Chemist
Institutions	University of Göttingen
Alma mater	University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor	Johann Friedrich Gmelin Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
Doctoral students	Robert Bunsen Eilhard Mitscherlich
Known for	Cadmium
Influenced	Leopold Gmelin

Friedrich Stromeyer (1776 - 1835) was a German chemist. Stromeyer received his degree from the University of Gottingen in 1800. He was then on the staff of the university and was also an inspector of apothecaries.

He received his MD doctorate in 1800 at the University of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Gmelin and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin

He discovered the element cadmium in 1817 while studying zinc compounds. Cadmium is an impurity in zinc compounds, although represented in very small quantities.

He was the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.

[edit] References

• J. Chem. Ed. 1953, 30, pp. 202-204.
• I. Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd Ed.), Doubleday, 1982,

pp. 276-277.

• M.E. Weeks, Discovery of the Elements (7th Ed.), Leicester, H. M., Ed., J. Chem. Ed., 1968, pp. 502-508.
• J. R. Partington, A History of Chemistry, Macmillan, 1962, vol. 3, pp. 659-660.
• Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 5, p. 566.

Persondata
NAME	Stromeyer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German Chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	2 August 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH	Göttingen, Germany
DATE OF DEATH	18 August 1835
PLACE OF DEATH