Richard Pribram (21 April 1847 – 7 January 1928) was an Austrian

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

. He was the brother of internist Alfred Pribram (1841–1912).

Biography

Pribram was born on 21 April 1847 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. He studied chemistry in

and

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(under

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), later becoming an assistant of

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at the

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. In 1872 he earned his

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at Prague, where he worked as a lecturer until 1874. He later taught classes at the

University of Czernowitz Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

, becoming a full professor of general and

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in 1879. At

Czernowitz Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the up ...

he served as dean to the faculty (1883–84) and

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(1891–92). As a chemist he conducted analyses of

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, and with

Alois Handl Alois Handl (22 July 1837, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg – 1915, Czernowitz) was an Austrian physicist. In 1859 he obtained his doctorate in Vienna, later becoming a professor at the University of Lemberg. Afterwards he taught classes at the military a ...

(1837–1915), he researched the

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of various

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. With Neumann Wender he was co-author of ''Anleitung zur Prüfung und Gehaltsbestimmung der Arzneistoffe für Apotheker, Chemiker, Aerzte und Sanitätsbeamte'' ("Guidance on testing and assay of drugs for

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, chemists, doctors and medical officers") (1893).Google Books
Anleitung zur Prüfung und Gehaltsbestimmung, etc. Pribram died on 7 January 1928 in

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, at the age of 80.

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Biography

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