Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs (28. July 1885,

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– 1958) (also published as Fritz Friedrichs) was a

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. Fritz, was a son of Ferdinand and Olga Friedrichs, born Reinhardt. He is the inventor of the spiral cold finger-type condenser, now most commonly known as a Friedrichs condenser, which he described in a 1912 article published in the

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. Friedrichs was instrumental in the standardization of chemical apparatus in Europe.

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20th-century German chemists 1885 births 1958 deaths {{Germany-chemist-stub