Wolf Emil Wohlwill (24 November 1835 in
Seesen
Seesen is a town and municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range, approx. west of Goslar.
History
The Saxon settlement of ''Sehusa'' was first mentioned i ...
– 2 February 1912 in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
) was a
German
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-Jewish engineer of
electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outc ...
. He invented the
Wohlwill process
The Wohlwill process is an industrial-scale chemical procedure used to refine gold to the highest degree of purity (99.999%). The process was invented in 1874 by Emil Wohlwill. This electrochemical process involves using a cast gold ingot, often c ...
in 1874.
Literary works
* ''
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*Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), astronomer, philosopher, and physicist.
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'', the 1st volume, 1909
** the 2nd volume, 1926
See also
*
Wohlwill process
The Wohlwill process is an industrial-scale chemical procedure used to refine gold to the highest degree of purity (99.999%). The process was invented in 1874 by Emil Wohlwill. This electrochemical process involves using a cast gold ingot, often c ...
*
Wohlwill-Andrade syndrome
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, also called transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, transthyretin amyloidosis abbreviated also as ATTR (hereditary form), or Corino de Andrade's disease, is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease. I ...
References
Gold Avenue Encyclopedia
1835 births
1912 deaths
People from Seesen
People from the Duchy of Brunswick
19th-century German Jews
Engineers from Lower Saxony
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