About Carl Gustav Guckelberger
Lived 1820 – 1902 (aged 81–82). Carl Gustav Guckelberger was a German chemist.
Carl Gustav Guckelberger (1820 – 9 August 1902) was a German chemist.
Life
Guckelsberger worked in a pharmacy in Stuttgart, but started studying chemistry with Hermann von Fehling, also in Stuttgart, for two semesters. With the recommendation of Fehling, Guckelsberger joined the laboratory of Justus von Liebig at the University of Gießen, where he received his Ph.D. His research there concerned the oxidation of albumin and related compounds.
In the 1850s he started working at a paper factory near Großalmerode, which he became technical director of. while others dispute the claim, giving more of the credit to his assistant Ludwig Mond.
Guckelberger retired in 1867 and lived near Kassel the rest of his life.
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German chemist
When was Carl Gustav Guckelberger born?
Carl Gustav Guckelberger was born in 1820 in Stuttgart.
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Carl Gustav Guckelberger died on 9 August 1902 in Germany, Kassel.
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Carl Gustav Guckelberger was a chemist.
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Carl Gustav Guckelberger was German.
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