Richard Adolf Zsigmondy - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1925
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1925
for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry
Citizenship
Austria Austria
Languages
German
date of birth
4/1/1865
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
9/23/1929
place of death
Göttingen
Lived
64 years
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • academic degree: Doctor
    • end time: 1889
  • University of Vienna
  • TU Wien
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • inventor
  • professor
employer
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Graz
position held
  • professor
field of work
  • interface and colloid science
member of
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
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