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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 ]. Not much is known about his life. He has worked in Paris, Germany, and Italy<ref name="Phil.Trans.1741">{{cite journal | '''August Sigmund Frobenius''' (1727 (first mentioned) – 1741?), ]<ref name="RS"></ref>, also known as '''Sigismond Augustus Frobenius''', '''Joannes Sigismundus Augustus Frobenius''', and '''Johann Sigismund August Froben''', was a German-born chemist in the 18th century who is known for the first description of ]. Not much is known about his life. He has worked in Paris, Germany, and Italy<ref name="Phil.Trans.1741">{{cite journal | ||
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August Sigmund Frobenius (1727 (first mentioned) – 1741?), FRS, also known as Sigismond Augustus Frobenius, Joannes Sigismundus Augustus Frobenius, and Johann Sigismund August Froben, was a German-born chemist in the 18th century who is known for the first description of diethyl ether. Not much is known about his life. He has worked in Paris, Germany, and Italy. He has worked in the laboratory or Ambrose Godfrey in London where he produced ether, 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 An Account of a Spiritus Vini Æthereus, Together with Several Experiments Tried. This article contains an extensive description of the properties of ether. However, his detailed experimental procedure was kept secret and was only published in 1741 after his death by Cromwell Mortimer. At this time, the procedure had already been published by other chemists, including Stahl, Fr. Hoffmann, Pott, Grosse, du Hamel, Schulze, and Hellot.
See also
External links
- Frobenius, August Sigmund (German Wikisource, transcription of )
References
- Royal Society Selected Fellows' details
- ^ C. Mortimer (1741). "Abstracts of the Original Papers Communicated to the Royal Society by Sigismond Augustus Frobenius, M. D. concerning His Spiritus Vini Aethereus: Collected by C. Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S." Phil. Trans. 41 (461): 864–870. doi:10.1098/rstl.1739.0161.
- Dr. Frobenius (1730). "An Account of a Spiritus Vini Æthereus, Together with Several Experiments Tried". Phil. Trans. 36 (413): 283–289. doi:10.1098/rstl.1729.0045.
- Ladenburg, Albert (1878). Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 8. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. p. 125.