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	Christian Friederich Schönbein

Curriculum Vitae:

Born October 18, 1799 in Metzingen / Württemberg, Germany
Died August 29, 1868 in Baden-Baden, Germany at the age of 68 years

1813 - 1820	Apprenticeship in a chemical factory in Böblingen / Württemberg
1820	Examination at the University of Tübingen
1820 - 1823	Factory chemist in Augsburg and Erlangen Studies at the University of Erlangen
1823 - 1826	Teacher of Chemistry and Physics at a school in Rudolstadt / Keilhau (Thuringia)
1826 - 1828	Teacher at a privat school in London
1828	Student at the Sorbonne University Paris Teachers: Gay-Lussac and Thenard
1828 - 1868	Professor of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland

Honours. 2 hon. D's, 2 medals, honorary citizen of Basel

chemical achievements:

Manifold works on the chemistry of oxygen and oxidation, within that:
1839 Discovery of ozone, many works about it.

Description of the passivity of metals.

1845 Invention of nitrocellulose and collodium. Investigations on the luminescence of phosphorous.

Importance with respect to the ozone science:

1839 Discovery of ozone, naming ("to smell", from the Greek word "ozein"). First investigations on ozone chemistery.

Great-grandfather and founder of Air Chemistery. Suggestion of determining the ozone content of air by means of his potassium jodide amylum papers at a number of places in Europe (e.g. Vienna, 1853-1920=series of longest duration).

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