Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853), German physiological chemist. He studied medicine and chemistry at Gottingen and in 1817 became professor of medicine and chemistry at Heidelberg University He is remembered for his discovery of several substances, among them potassium ferricyanide, in 1822. In his physiology researches he established the presence of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice and studied the constituents of bile. Gmelin is remembered for his textbook on theoretical chemistry and his Handbook on Inorganic Chemistry. For many years this was the largest dictionary on inorganic chemist | |
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