Eugen Baumann ( German: Eugen Baumann ; December 12, 1846 , Bad Canstatt - November 3, 1896 , Freiburg ) is a German chemist, pioneer of polyvinyl chloride and the author (together with Karl Schotten) of the Schotten-Baumann reaction. He studied the chemical processes of biotransformation of organic sulfur compounds in the human body, and was the first to find iodine in the tissues of the thyroid gland .
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Biography
Born in Bad Cannstadt (now part of Stuttgart ) in 1846 . He studied science at Stuttgart Polytechnicum, and then served as a pharmacist apprentice with his father. In 1870, he passed the exam for a pharmacist at the University of Tübingen . In Tübingen, he received his doctorate in 1872 with a dissertation on vinyl compounds. In 1876, following his teacher, Goppe-Zeiler moved to Strasbourg , and a year later he headed the chemical laboratory at the Dubois-Reymond Institute of Physiology in Berlin. In 1883 he moved to Freiburg , where he remained until his death.
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- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ https://books.google.es/books?id=j6fXUe6DO7EC&pg=PA552