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| 1947 deaths | |
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He was born in Elizabetgrad in Russia (now in the Ukraine ). In 1884, the family emigrated to Chicago to escape the Pogrom s following the assassination of czar Alexander II . In 1886, Moses entered the University Of Michigan , where he obtained his B.Sc in 1890 and his doctorate in 1894 under the supervision of A. B. Prescott . He remained at the University of Michigan for the rest of his life. In 1896–1897 he took a year's leave to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with Baeyer and Thiele in Munich and with Victor Meyer in Heidelberg , where he successfully prepared the long-elusive Tetraphenylmethane . During attempts to prepare the even more Sterically Congested hydrocarbon hexaphenylethane he correctly identified the Triphenylmethyl Radical , the first Persistent Radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of Radical Chemistry . The work was later followed up by Wilhelm Schlenk . Gomberg was a mentor to Werner Emmanuel Bachmann who also carried on his work. EXTERNAL LINKS
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