Gottlieb Kirchhoff
Chemist, Academic
1764 – 1833
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Who was Gottlieb Kirchhoff?
Gottlieb Sigismund Constantin Kirchhoff was a Russian chemist. In 1812 he became the first person to convert starch into a sugar, by heating it with sulfuric acid. This sugar was eventually named glucose. He also developed a method of refining vegetable oil, and established a factory that prepared two tons of refined oil a day.
Since the sulfuric acid was not consumed, it was an early example of a catalyst.
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