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Fritz Ullmann Fritz Ullmann (July 2, 1875 in Fürth – March 17, 1939 in Berlin) was a German chemist. Ullmann was born in Fürth and started studying chemistry in Nuremberg, but received his PhD of the University of Geneva for work with Carl Gräbe in 18 ...

, first published in 1914, and exclusively in German as "Enzyklopädie der Technischen Chemie" until 1984.

History

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a major reference work related to

by chemist

. Its 1st edition was published in German by

in 1914. The 4th edition, published 1972 to 1984, already contained 25 volumes. The 5th edition, published 1985 to 1996, was the first version available in English. In 1997, the first online version was published. 2014 marked its

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. As of 2016, Ullmann's Encyclopedia was in its 7th edition, in 40 volumes including one index volume and more than 1,050 articles (200 more than the 6th edition), approx. 30,000 pages, 22,000 images, 8,000 tables, 19,000 references and 85,000 indices.

Editions

* 1914–1922: 1st edition in 12 volumes, which can be viewed online (hosted by

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) * 1928–1932: 2nd edition in 11 volumes * 1951–1970: 3rd edition in 22 volumes, of which volume 2 is in two sub-volumes * 1972–1984: 4th edition in 25 volumes, last edition in German language * 1985–1996: 5th edition, in English only, entitled ''Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry'', in 36 volumes * 2002–2007: 6th edition in 40 volumes * 2011–2014: 7th edition in 40 print volumes, with ongoing changes and additions to the online edition

Editors and contributors

Barbara Elvers (Wiley-VCH) is currently Senior Editorial Advisor and Claudia Ley is Editor-in-Chief, both Wiley-VCH. The Editorial Board has around 20 members from different nations. The encyclopedia is a multi-author work. Around 3,000 international authors from universities and industry contributed to it.

Topics

''Note: The 'topics' are a selection of related articles provided by Wiley Online Library. The number (#) indicates that, for example, 15 articles relate to the main branch of

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s. The numbers do not exactly sum up to the total number of articles (1,050), but its sole purpose is for organizing and categorizing the large number of articles where possible.'' *Agrochemicals (15 articles) * Analytical Techniques (30) * Biochemistry & Biotechnology (26) * Chemical Reactions (12) * Dyes and Pigments (29) * Energy (22) * Environmental Protection and Industrial Safety(29) * Fat, Oil, Food and Feed, Cosmetics (39) * Inorganic Chemicals (71) * Materials (33) * Metals and Alloys (38) * Organic Chemicals (114) * Pharmaceuticals (77) * Polymers and Plastics (57) * Processes & Process Engineering (86) * Renewable Resources (20) * Special Topics (64)

''Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology''

In the 1940s, American Chemists Donald F. Othmer and Raymond E. Kirk from

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began to create an English counterpart to Ullmann , named the ''Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology''. It was originally published by

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, which in 1996 took over the German

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publishing house and thus has combined the two encyclopedias ever since. The German chemistry magazine CHEManager wrote, quote: "In a double pack, the two companion works are simply unbeatable, because the knowledge gathered in both offers answers to (almost) all questions that can arise in connection with chemical products and processes.". These two encyclopedias were compared in Reference Reviews in 2007. , Kirk-Othmer was in its 5th edition with more than 1,300 articles in 27 volumes with over 22,950 pages.{{Cite web, title=Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 27 Volume Set, 5th Edition, Wiley, url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Kirk+Othmer+Encyclopedia+of+Chemical+Technology%2C+27+Volume+Set%2C+5th+Edition-p-9780471484943, access-date=2021-12-02, website=Wiley.com, language=en-us

External links

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
7th edition online - continuously updated (English)
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 7th edition print version

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
5th edition online - continuously updated (English)
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 5.th edition print version

References

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