Richard Lorenz (chemist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Richard Lorenz (chemist)
- Richard Lorenz (13 April 1863 in Vienna – 23 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main) was an Austrian chemist.
- He was the son of historian Ottokar Lorenz. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Vienna and Jena, receiving his doctorate in 1888 with a dissertation on the valence of boron, "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Valenz des Bors".
- After graduation, he worked as an assistant in the biological institute at the University of Rostock.
- In 1892 he obtained his habilitation in physical chemistry at University of Göttingen.In 1896 he was named an associate professor of electrochemistry at the Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zurich.
- During the following year he attained a full professorship.
- In 1910 he relocated to the Frankfurt Academy, where he worked until the founding of the University of Frankfurt am Main (1914).
- Here he served as a professor of physical chemistry up until his death in June 1929.He was the author of numerous papers in the field of physical chemistry.
- He is remembered for his work involving the electrochemical behavior of molten salts.
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