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Leopold Gmelin ( August 2 , 1788 – April 13 , 1853 ) was a German Chemist . Gmelin was the son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin . He studied Medicine and Chemistry at Göttingen , Tübingen and Vienna , and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg , where in 1814 he was appointed extraordinary-, and in 1817 ordinary-, Professor of chemistry and medicine. He was the discoverer of Potassium Ferricyanide ( 1822 ), and wrote the ''Handbuch der Chemie'' (first edition 1817– 1819 , 4th ed. 1843-1855), an important work in its day, which was translated into English for the Cavendish Society by H. Watts ( 1815 – 1884 ) in 1848 - 1850 . He resigned his chair in 1852 , and died at Heidelberg. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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