Anton Eduard van Arkel

1893-1976

 

  He was a Dutch chemist at Eindhoven, later Professor of chemistry at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. With de Boer at Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, he developed a method of preparing pure metals using the iodide or crystal bar process; first prepared metallic hafnium in 1925.

 
 

 

  1. Photographs of Eindhoven, Netherlands
 

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