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Traveling
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| Julius Lothar Meyer was active in many fields of chemistry. He taught
at Breslau, Karlsruhe, and Tübingen after from 1876. Meyer is best
known for his work in the development of the periodic law. He received
the Davy medal in 1882, with Mendeleev. Meyer established independent of
Mendeleyev, the principles underlying the periodic table of the elements.
"He did not publish this work until after the appearance of Mendeleev's
first paper on the subject in 1869. His table was very similar to that
of Mendeleev, but it contained some improvements and was, perhaps, influential
in causing some of the revisions made by Mendeleev in the second version
of his table, published in 1870. In general, Meyer was more impressed by
the periodicity of the physical properties of the elements, while Mendeleev
saw more clearly the chemical consequences of the periodic law."1
He also evolved the atomic volume curve (1869), which represented graphically the relation between the atomic weights and the atomic volumes of the elements. (click here to see the atomic volume curve) In Meyer's later years he contributions organic chemistry by the concept that the carbon atoms in benzene were arranged in a ring, though he did not propose the alternation of single and double bonds that later became included in the structure by Kekulé. |
| Selection is taken from Meyer's paper in Annalen der Chemie, Supplementband. |
| Meyer on the Chemical Achievers site. |
| Meyer From Wikipedia |
Some Web Sources on the History of Atomic Scientists:
The
History of Chemistry 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute
Selected
Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry
Classic
Papers from the History of Chemistry (and Some Physics too)
Classic Chemistry
compiled by Carmen Giunta
History of Science
website by Charlesworth
Center for the History of Physics
Echo Exploring & Collecting
History Online
Atom:
The Incredible World: The History of Atomistics
Nobel Prize WebPage
Biographies
of Famous Chemists, University of Liverpool
University
of Pennsylvania Biographies
Chemistry:
A History
Famous
Scientists greatly who contributed to "electro" science: electricity, electromagnetism,
electrical
technology, electronics, electrical telegraphy, radio, electrochemistry,
electromedicine, etc.
Elements
and Atoms: Case Studies in the Development of Chemistry
| Full biographical information on Sacks' book Uncle Tungsten | pp. 201-02 |
| Full biographical information on Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology | NA |
| Heidelberg Germany, tourist attractions | (click here) |
| Read about someone elses trip visiting the various leading scientific institutions in South-West Germany. Including a description about Heidelberg. | (click here) |
| Map of Heidelberg Germany | (click here) |
* see following Rodgers link to scientific/historical sites for further information.
(1) Taken from The Scientific Traveler, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1992).
(2) Taken from A Travel Guide to Scientific Sites of the British Isles, Charles Tanford and Jacqueline Reynolds, John Wiley & Sons, NY (1995).
(3) Taken from Guide of Eurpoean Museums with collections on History of Chemistry, compiled by Jan W. van Spronsen, Federation of European Societies, Antwerp (1996)
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