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Place of Birth: Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Robert Wintgen
- Robert Wintgen (June 13, 1882 ) was a German chemist.
- Wintgen studied at the University of Bonn and made his Ph.D with E.
- Rimbach at the University of Berlin. After a post-doc position with Alfred Stock in Berlin between 1917 and 1919 he worked at the University of Göttingen together with Richard Adolf Zsigmondy.
- Influenced by this cooperation worked on colloids chemistry from that point on.
- Wintgen became professor at the newly founded University of Cologne in 1924 where he stayed until his retirement in 1950.
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