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| '''August Sigmund Frobenius''' was a German chemist in the 18th century who is known for the first description of ]. Not much is known about his life. He seems to have worked in the laboratory or ] and to have produced ether in 1730, partially following a method of ]. His first article about ether was published 1730 in the ] under the title "Of a Spiritus Aetheraeus". He kept his method to produce diethyl ether a secret. Only after his death was his method published, but then several other chemists had already published their syntheses. <ref>{{cite book | '''August Sigmund Frobenius''', also known as Sigismond Augustus Frobenius, was a German chemist in the 18th century who is known for the first description of ]. Not much is known about his life. He seems to have worked in the laboratory or ] and to have produced ether in 1730, partially following a method of ]. His first article about ether was published 1730 in the ] under the title "Of a Spiritus Aetheraeus". He kept his method to produce diethyl ether a secret. Only after his death was his method published, but then several other chemists had already published their syntheses. <ref>{{cite book | ||
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August Sigmund Frobenius, also known as Sigismond Augustus Frobenius, was a German chemist in the 18th century who is known for the first description of diethyl ether. Not much is known about his life. He seems to have worked in the laboratory or Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz and to have produced ether in 1730, partially following a method of Isaac Newton. His first article about ether was published 1730 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society under the title "Of a Spiritus Aetheraeus". He kept his method to produce diethyl ether a secret. Only after his death was his method published, but then several other chemists had already published their syntheses.
See also
External links
- Frobenius, August Sigmund (German Wikisource)
References
- Ladenburg, Albert (1878). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 8. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. p. 125.