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Isidor Traube

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Isidor Traube · Science & Medicine

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Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids

When

1860, Hildesheim, Germany — 1943, Edinburgh, Scotland

Where

Germany · Scotland

Biography

Isidor Traube is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids

How & why

Traube was a German physical chemist who founded capillary chemistry and advanced the study of surface tension, colloids, osmosis and critical temperature; 'Traube's rule' relating surface tension to the number of CH2 groups bears his name. Dismissed under the Nazis, he emigrated to Edinburgh in 1939. He was Jewish, of the notable Traube family of German-Jewish scientists.

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Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids

1860

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science