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BY the death, on May 8, of Wilhelm Wislicenus, professor of chemistry at the University of Tübingen, organic chemistry lost one of its most fruitful research workers, who contributed in no small measure towards placing the science on the basis which it now occupies. He was born at Zürich on January 23, 1861, and was the eldest son of Johannes Wislicenus, that great organic chemist whose name stands on the roll of fame co-equal with those of Hofmann and Frankland. At the time of Wilhelm's birth his father, who had, in the previous year, moved from Halle to Zürich, where he had married Katherine Sattler, the granddaughter of Wilhelm Sattler, joint discoverer of “Schweinfurt green,” held the chair of chemistry and mineralogy under the council of the Canton at the School of Industries. Wilhelm may be said, therefore, to have inherited his chemical genius both on his father's and mother's sides.
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T., J. Prof. W. Wislicenus. Nature 110, 223–224 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110223a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110223a0