Fritz Plato (1858 – 1938) was a German chemist. The unit for

specific gravity Relative density, also called specific gravity, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material. Specific gravity for solids and liquids is nea ...

of liquids, degree Plato, is named after him. Plato made a career as a civil servant in professions related to chemistry and was a civil servant.

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1858 births 1938 deaths 19th-century German chemists 20th-century German chemists {{Germany-chemist-stub