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ACCORDING to an announcement in the Chemiker Zeitung of January 12, Dr. Wilhelm Biltz, professor of inorganic chemistry and director of the Laboratories at the Technical High School, Hanover, died on November 13, 1943. Born at Berlin in 1877, Biltz had a long and successful career as a research chemist and became one of Germany's leading authorities on inorganic chemistry. His work covered a very wide field, for with a succession of collaborators he carried out investigations upon most of the chemical elements, in the course of which he prepared hundreds of new compounds, especially double halides and other double salts, and his work has helped to clarify knowledge of the chemistry of uranium, tungsten, molybdenum and, more recently, rhenium. In his earlier work he gave much attention to density and conductivity determinations of solutions, while later work led him into studies of affinity. This involved heating mixtures of an element and sulphur (or phosphorus, etc.) in varying proportions and submitting the products to X-ray and other methods of analysis (for example, tensimetric) to determine the formulæ of the sulphides, phosphides, etc.
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Prof. W. Biltz. Nature 154, 76 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154076b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154076b0