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  1. Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which over successive editions became a standard reference work still in use.

  2. 21 hours ago · Leopold Gmelin. (1788—1853) Quick Reference. (1788–1853) German chemist. Gmelin, whose father and grandfather were botanists, was born at Göttingen (in Germany) and studied at the universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, and Vienna. In 1817 he was appointed to the first chair of chemistry at Heidelberg, where he remained until 1851.

  3. 2017 marks 200 years since Leopold Gmelin first published his influential handbook – and it’s still going strong, as Mike Sutton discovers

  4. Aug 2, 2022 · On August 2, 1788, German chemist Leopold Gmelin was born. Gmelin discovered potassium ferrocyanide (1822), devised Gmelin ‘s test for bile pigments and researched the chemistry of digestion. He published the notable Handbook of Chemistry to comprehensively survey the subject.

  5. In 1843, Leopold Gmelin worked with the Dobereiner’s system and developed a table of 55 elements that contained many of the similar relationships later found in the modern periodic table. Then in 1857, Jean-Baptiste Dumas published the results of his work in 'Comptes Rendus' describing relationships between groups of metals.

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  6. Aug 2, 2018 · Leopold Gmelin, a German chemist, was born Aug. 2, 1788. Gmelin is known today primarily for a three-volume chemical handbook that he first published in 1817-19. Called Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie, it attempted to...

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  8. Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853) was born in Göttin-gen into a distinguished family of chemists, traveled to Tübingen, Vienna, and Italy, and then settled down at the University of Heidelberg in 1813.

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