Friedrich Wöhler
1800-1882
He was a professor of chemistry at Göttingen who was famous for proving organic compounds did not possess a “vital force” by synthesizing urea from ammonium isocyanate. Wöhler prepared aluminum, beryllium, and yttrium by reduction of their chlorides by metallic potassium. | ||
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