Georg Lunge (15 September 1839 – 3 January 1923) was a German
chemist
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born in
Breslau. He studied at
Heidelberg
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(under
Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (;
30 March 1811
– 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bu ...
) and Breslau, graduating at the latter university in 1859, to work with
Ferdinand Cohn. Turning his attention to technical chemistry, he became chemist at several works both in Germany and
England
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, and in 1876 he was appointed professor of technical chemistry at
ETH Zurich.
Lunge's original contributions cover a very wide field, dealing both with technical processes and analysis. In addition, he was a voluminous writer, enriching scientific literature with many standard works. His treatises ''Coal Tar and Ammonia'', ''Destillation des Steinkohlentheers'' and ''Sulphuric Acid and Alkali'', established his position as the highest authority on these subjects, while the ''Chemische-technische Untersuchungs-Methoden'', to which he contributed, testified to his researches in technical analysis.
His jubilee was celebrated in
Zurich on 15 September 1909 and he died in Zurich on 3 January 1923.
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1839 births
1923 deaths
19th-century German chemists
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Scientists from Wrocław