Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
Chemist, Academic
1721 – 1768
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Who was Philipp Friedrich Gmelin?
Philipp Friedrich Gmelin was a professor of botany and chemistry. He studied the chemistry of antimony and wrote texts on the pancreatic ducts, on mineral waters, and on botany.
He was a brother of the famous traveler Johann Georg Gmelin. He obtained his MD in 1742 at the University of Tübingen under Burchard Mauchart.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758.
He was the father of the naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1721
Tübingen - Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- Died
- May 9, 1768
Tübingen
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on July 23, 2013
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