Viktor Meyer
Viktor Meyer · Science & Medicine
Organic chemist who discovered thiophene and vapor-density methods
1848, Berlin, Germany — 1897, Heidelberg, Germany
Germany · Switzerland
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Meyer was a German organic and physical chemist who discovered thiophene and devised the vapor-density method for determining molecular weights, along with pioneering work on oximes and stereochemistry. He held chairs at Zurich, Göttingen and Heidelberg. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin.
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Organic chemist who discovered thiophene and vapor-density methods
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