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- Physikalisch-Chemische Rechenaufgaben
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1869-01-09 ) 9 January 1869 , Danzig , Prussia , North German Confederation , (now Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland)
- Died
- 4 April 1910 (1910-04-04) (aged 41) , Köslin , German Empire , (now Koszalin , West Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland)
- Education
- University of Kiel , University of Tübingen , University of Berlin
- Known for
- Abegg's rule
- Fields
- Chemist
- Institutions
- University of Göttingen , Stockholm University , University of Breslau
- Doctoral advisor
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann
- Doctoral students
- Clara Immerwahr
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Heinrich
- Family name
- Abegg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Gdańsk
- Place of death
- Koszalin
- Occupation
- balloonist
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Employer
- University of Göttingen
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann
- Doctoral student
- Clara Immerwahr
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Richard Abegg (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Wrocław
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- Richard Abegg
- date of birth
- 1869-01-09
- date of death
- 1910-04-03
- member of
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- birth name
- Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg
- student
- Clara Immerwahr
- described by source
- Neue Deutsche Biographie
- relative
- Julius Abegg
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Richard Abegg
- interested in
- organic chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. He was a gas balloon enthusiast, which caused his death at the age of 41 when he crashed in his balloon in Silesia.
Abegg received his PhD on 19 July 1891 as the student of August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin. Abegg learned organic chemistry from Hofmann, but one year after finishing his PhD degree he began researching physical chemistry while studying with Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig, Germany. Abegg later served as private assistant to Walther Nernst at the University of Göttingen and to Svante Arrhenius at the Stockholm University.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Abegg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.