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Johann Wolfgang Doebereiner

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Johann Wolfgang Doebereiner

Birth
Bug (Berg), Landkreis Hof, Bavaria, Germany
Death
24 Mar 1849 (aged 68)
Jena, Stadtkreis Jena, Thüringen, Germany
Burial
Jena, Stadtkreis Jena, Thüringen, Germany GPS-Latitude: 50.9307, Longitude: 11.5819479
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Chemist, professor in Jena. Well known for the "Doebereiner's Triads", a milestone on the way to the periodic system of elements. He also detected the catalytic effect of platinium. Goethe drew inspiration from his theory of chemical affinities for his novella "Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities)".
Chemist, professor in Jena. Well known for the "Doebereiner's Triads", a milestone on the way to the periodic system of elements. He also detected the catalytic effect of platinium. Goethe drew inspiration from his theory of chemical affinities for his novella "Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities)".

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