Isidor Traube
Isidor Traube · Science & Medicine
Physical chemist known for research on surface tension and colloids
1860, Hildesheim, Germany — 1943, Edinburgh, Scotland
Germany · Scotland
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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
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