Nationality German Known for Cadmium | Name Friedrich Stromeyer Discovered Cadmium Role Chemist | |
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Born 2 August 1776Gottingen ( 1776-08-02 ) Institutions University of Gottingen Alma mater University of Gottingen Doctoral advisor Johann Friedrich GmelinLouis Nicolas Vauquelin Doctoral students Robert BunsenEilhard Mitscherlich Died August 18, 1835, Gottingen, Germany Similar People Robert Bunsen, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Leopold Gmelin, Eilhard Mitscherlich | ||
Education University of Gottingen | ||
Friedrich Stromeyer (2 August 1776 – 18 August 1835) was a German chemist. Stromeyer received an MD degree from the University of Göttingen in 1800, studying under Johann Friedrich Gmelin and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He was then a professor at the university, and also served as an inspector of apothecaries.
While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts.
In 1819 he was the first scientist to describe the mineral eudialyte. In 1832 the mineral stromeyerite was named in his honor by mineralogist François Sulpice Beudant.