Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
1818–84
German chemist. Worked for Lyon Playfair at the Royal School of Mines, London, 1845–7. Professor of chemistry, Marburg University, 1851; Leipzig University, 1865. Foreign member, Royal Society, 1877.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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