Name Herman Schlundt Role Chemist | Died 1937 | |
Education University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
Herman Schlundt (19 July 1869 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin – 1937) was a United States chemist.
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1894 and took his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in 1901. He was for a time connected with the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, and from 1902 was associated with that of the University of Missouri, where he was professor of physical chemistry in 1907–13, and chairman of the department of chemistry in 1910–15.
After 1924, he and William McGavock fabricated a laboratory for the refining of mesothorium (from monazite ore) and radium (from discarded watch dials). It was a unique source of thorium and was resorted to by many noted scientists, for example Marie Curie. The lab received national press notice in 1930 and shortly thereafter closed.
Works
Schlundt is the author of numerous articles on physical chemistry and radioactivity and of Laboratory Experiments in General Chemistry (1912) and Radioactivity of the thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park (1909).