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Antal Ruprecht (1748–1818) was a Hungarian Chemist.

He was born in Szomolnok, Hungary in 1748. He graduated from the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya where he later became a professor of chemistry and metallurgy in 1779. He was the first to melt platinum and contributed to the discovery of tellurium in 1784. Ruprecht was the first to theorise that alkaline earth metals were compounds rather than elements; later proved by Humphry Davy. This theory caused some controversy in the chemistry community due to the previous assumption of earths being fundamental substances.

References

1. "Ruprecht, Antal (1748-1818)". European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
2. Görög, Sándor (2002). "Chemistry in Hungary". Nachrichten aus der Chemie. 50 (6): 712–715. doi:10.1002/nadc.20020500612.
3. Nagaiyar Krishnamurthy & Chiranjib Kumar Gupta (2004). Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths. CRC Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0203413029.
4. Ferenc Szabadvary (1993). History of Analytical Chemistry. CRC Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-2881245695.

• Hungarian chemists
• 1748 births
• 1818 deaths
• People from Gelnica District
• Scientists from the Austrian Empire