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Institutions
  
University of Lund

Education
  
Lund University

Role
  
Chemist

Name
  
Christian Blomstrand

Alma mater
  
University of Lund


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Born
  
October 20, 1826 Vaxjo, Smaland, Sweden (
1826-10-20
)

Died
  
November 5, 1897, Lund, Sweden

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (20 October 1826 – 5 November 1897) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist.

Blomstrand was born in Växjö, Sweden and studied chemistry at the University of Lund, where he received his Ph.D in 1850 and his habilitation in 1854. After an expedition to Spitsbergen and a being a lecturer at the Elementary Technical School of Malmö. he became professor for chemistry 1862 at the University of Lund.

Blomstrand was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1861.

The island Blomstrandhalvøya and the glacier Blomstrandbreen on Spitsbergen are named after him.

Publications

  • Blomstrand, Kristian Vilhelm (1869). Die Chemie der Jetztzeit: vom Standpunkte der electrochemischen Auffassung, aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt. ISBN 978-1-144-80510-2. 
  • Kemper, R. (1869). "Die Chemie der Jetztzeit vom Standpunkte der elektrochemischen Auffassung aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt von C. W. Blomstrand. XIV. u. 417 S. Heidelberg, Carl Winter 1869". Archiv der Pharmazie. 189: 173. doi:10.1002/ardp.18691890162. 

    • References

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