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IT is with much regret that we have to record the death at Heidelberg, on February 5, of Prof. Brühl, the distinguished chemist. He was of Jewish parentage, and was born at Warsaw in February, 1850, and studied from 1868 to 1873 at Zurich and Berlin. In 1873, on completion of his studentship, he became assistant to Prof. Landolt at Aachen, and in 1879 was appointed professor in the University of Lemberg, which chair he resigned in 1884 on account of ill-health brought on by the unsuitability of the climate. After some sojourn at Freiburg (in Breisgau) he was Induced by Bunsen to transfer his services to Heidelberg, where, in 1887, he became honorary professor in the high school, and took over the private laboratory of Prof. Bernthsen, who had then entered the service of the Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik at Ludwigshafen. In 1889 he commenced lecturing as Bunsen's representative, and was given full title as honorary professor in 1908. Brtihl's contributions to science will be appraised in due course: they are numerous and important and cover a wide range of subjects, chiefly on the border-land of physics and chemistry. His main work, and that with which his name will be always associated, is unquestionably his exhaustive and protracted series of researches on the relationship between the refractivity and the chemical oconstitution of organic compounds. Following the pioneering work of Gladstone and Dale in this country, Briihl made this subject for many years essentially his own, and he has always been regarded -as the leader and chief authority in this branch of physical chemistry. It will be remembered that he was the first to bring optical evidence to bear upon the question of the constitution of the benzene “ring.”
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M., R. Julius Wilhelm Bruhl . Nature 85, 517–518 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085517a0
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