Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand

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Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand
Born	(1826-10-20)October 20, 1826 Växjö, Småland, Sweden
Died	November 5, 1897(1897-11-05) (aged 71) Lund, Sweden
Institutions	University of Lund
Alma mater	University of Lund

Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (20 October 1826 – 5 November 1897) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist.

Blomstrand was born in Växjö, Sweden and studied chemistry at the University of Lund, where he received his Ph.D in 1850 and his habilitation in 1854. After an expedition to Spitsbergen and a being a lecturer at the Elementary Technical School of Malmö.^[1]^[2] he became professor for chemistry 1862 at the University of Lund.

Blomstrand was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1861.

The island Blomstrandhalvøya and the glacier Blomstrandbreen on Spitsbergen are named after him.^[3]

Publications

Blomstrand, Kristian Vilhelm (1869). Die Chemie der Jetztzeit: vom Standpunkte der electrochemischen Auffassung, aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt. ISBN 978-1-144-80510-2.
Kemper, R. (1869). "Die Chemie der Jetztzeit vom Standpunkte der elektrochemischen Auffassung aus Berzelius Lehre entwickelt von C. W. Blomstrand. XIV. u. 417 S. Heidelberg, Carl Winter 1869". Archiv der Pharmazie 189: 173. doi:10.1002/ardp.18691890162.

References

↑ House Of Commons, Great Britain. Parliament (1869). House of Commons papers.
↑ Klason, Peter (1897). "Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 30 (3): 3227. doi:10.1002/cber.189703003152.
↑ "Blomstrandbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

Kauffman, George (1975). "Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand (1826–1897) Swedish chemist and mineralogist". Annals of Science 32: 13. doi:10.1080/00033797500200541.
E. v. Meyer (1945). "Zur Erinnerung an Friedrich Stohmann und Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand". Journal für Praktische Chemie 56 (1): 397–400. doi:10.1002/prac.18970560131.
Weeks, Mary Elvira (1951). "The discovery of the elements: XVI. The rare earth elements". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (10): 1751–1773. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9.1751W. doi:10.1021/ed009p1751.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 69046378 LCCN: no2011078291 ISNI: 0000 0001 2138 1701 GND: 116204206 BNF: cb12560352m

Persondata
Name	Blomstrand , Christian Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description	Chemist
Date of birth	(1826-10-20)20 October 1826
Place of birth	Växjös, Sweden
Date of death	5 November 1897(1897-11-05)
Place of death	Lund, Sweden

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