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Christian Friedrich Schönbein
German-Swiss chemist, discoverer of guncotton and ozone (1799-1868)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 October 1799
- Died
- 29 August 1868
- Place of death
- Baden-Baden
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Schönbein
- Occupation
- chemist, politician, university teacher, physicist
- Position held
- rector of the University of Basel
- Citizenship
- Switzerland, Kingdom of Württemberg
- Awards
- Royal Order of Vasa, honorary doctor of the University of Freiburg, honorary doctorate of the University of Basel, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- employer
- University of Basel
- interested in
- electrochemistry
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, French Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Silesian Society for the Culture of the Fatherland, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Burschenschaft Germania Tübingen
- place of burial
- Wolfgottesacker
- topic's main category
- Category:Christian Friedrich Schönbein
- writing language
- German
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