All History articles – Page 44
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Liebig's Kaliapparat
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis
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Thiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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Mary's bath
Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still
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Ostwald's viscometer
One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).