Gottingen, Germany/gottingen060
Previous | Home | NextThe portraits include a chronological listing of the university heads. Immediately recognizable to one interested in the discovery of the elements are (second from left) Stromeyer, discoverer of cadmium, and (third from left) his successor Wöhler. Immediately to the right of Wöhler is Gustav Tammann, who was director of the Inorganic Institute starting in 1903. The portrait to the far left was Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804), who built the first chemical laboratory at Göttingen in 1783, measuring 12 by 6 meters.
