Lambert Heinrich Joseph Anton Konrad Freiherr von Babo (25 November 1818 – 15 April 1899) was a German

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Life

Babo was the son of the agronomist Lambert Joseph von Babo and his first wife Karoline Ehrmann. The

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August Wilhelm von Babo was his half-brother. After graduating from high school Babo studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich and received a doctorate in 1842 from Heidelberg. In the following year he began studying chemistry under

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receiving his

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in 1845 from

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. On 6 September 1847 he married Elise Baumgärtner in Freiburg and had a daughter and two sons. He became a

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at the University of Freiburg

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in 1854 and

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in 1859. As such, he was also appointed an expert for the Grand Ducal courts.

Work

Babo determined

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of water, called von Babo's law. He also developed the Babo funnel for heating glass flasks, named after him. This consists of an inverted cone stump made from sheet steel with asbestos strips arranged radially on the inside wall.

Publications

* ''Arsen in Vergiftungsfälle'' (1844) * ''Zentrifugalkraft'' (1852)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Babo 1818 births 1899 deaths People from Ladenburg People from the Grand Duchy of Baden German barons 19th-century German chemists