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LEIPZIG is a city which boasts many traditions; it is associated with some of the most distinguished names in nearly every department of intellectual life; and its University justly takes a place among the leading schools of Europe. To us there is a sense of fitness in the thought that the school which produced a Wagner and a Goethe should have numbered among its teachers two men who have left a mark in the history of the development of organic chemistry. These men are Hermann Kolbe and Johannes Wislicenus; both of them famous as teachers and experimenters, and each of them associated with a theory the importance of the effect of which on the growth of their science it would be difficult to overestimate.
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Some Scientific Centres: I—The Leipzig Chemical Laboratory . Nature 64, 127–129 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064127a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/064127a0