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Portrait of Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn
Box 21- Circa 1900
Black and white portrait of Cornelis A. Lobry de Bruyn (1857-1904). De Bruyn was an organic and pharmaceutical chemist and professor at the University of Amsterdam. His research on the three isomers of dinitrobenzene…
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Portrait of Carl Engler
Box 21- After 1900
Black and white portrait of Carl Engler (1842-1925).
Carl Engler (Karl Engler) was a German chemist, academic, and politician. He studied indigo synthesis, petrochemistry, and ozone. He created the Engler viscometer,…
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Physical chemistry laboratory at the University of Leipzig
Box 21- 1900
Black and white photograph of scientists in a laboratory at the University of Leipzig shown working at long tables cluttered with scientific apparatuses and glassware. The scientists in the photograph are identified by…
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Physical chemistry laboratory at the University of Leipzig
Box 21- Circa 1900
Sepia-toned photograph of seven chemists at work in the physical chemistry lab at the University of Leipzig. Chemists in the photograph are identified by handwritten inscriptions on the photo from left to right as…
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Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Leipzig
Box 21- 1900
Black and white photograph of the Physical Chemistry Institute building at the University of Leipzig. The Institute was founded in 1898 by Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932). In 1998, it was renamed the Wilhelm Ostwald…
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Physical Chemistry Institute at Leipzig University, 1900
Box 21- 1900
Photograph of the physical chemistry building at the University of Leipzig, 1900. In front of the building, there is an unidentified man posing with a mailbox.
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Paul von Groth's personal calling card
Box 3, Folder 18- Circa 1900
Calling card belonging to Paul von Groth (1843-1927). Groth was a German mineralogist, professor, and curators of minerals at the State Museum at Munich. He is known for his systematic classification of minerals based…
- Creator Of Work Groth, P. (Paul), 1843-1927
- Subject Groth, P. (Paul), 1843-1927, Mineralogists, Visiting cards, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Note from Svante Arrhenius to an unidentified recipient
Box 1, Folder 4- Circa 1900
Note from Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) to an unidentified recipient in which Arrhenius requests that Georg Bredig (1868-1944) be updated on a corrected calculation for an experiment.
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927
- Subject Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemists, Chemistry
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Norfolk Coach at Christmas
Box 10, Folder 7- After 1900
Reproduction of a print by artist Robert Seymour (1798-1836) originally completed circa 1820. The Norfolk Coach depicts a horse-drawn carriage being pulled through snowy streets and piled high with pheasants.
- Artist Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836
- Printer New York Public Library
- Subject Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, Christmas
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Naumann in the physical chemistry lab in Leipzig
Box 21- Circa 1900
Sepia-toned and annotated photograph of two men, one identified as "Naumann," at the physical chemistry department of Leipzig University. Behind the men are shelves with glassware.
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Letter from Otto Levis to Georg Bredig
Box 2, Folder 27- Circa 1900
Georg Breidg (1868-1944) receives a letter from his uncle, Otto Levis, requesting that Georg send Dr. Boruttau, a physiologist in Göttingen, his two most recent publications on colloids.
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Levis, Otto
- Subject Colloids, Chemistry, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Gustav Tammann's personal calling card
Box 3, Folder 18- Circa 1900
- Creator Of Work Tammann, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon, 1861-1938
- Subject Visiting cards, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Group photograph of the Breakfast and Coffee Club at Leipzig University
Box 21- 1900
Black and white photograph of the members of the Breakfast and Coffee Club from the physical chemistry department of Leipzig University in 1900. The people in the photograph pose on a staircase holding coffee cups.
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Fred W. Skirrow and Henry L. Heathcote mixing a solution
Box 21- Circa 1900
Black and white photograph of chemists, Frederick William Skirrow (1876-) at left and Henry L. Heathcote on the right, mixing a solution in a University of Leipzig laboratory.
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Framed Photograph of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Wilhelm Ostwald
Box 25- 1900
Framed photograph of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852-1911) and Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) in a laboratory. The photograph depicts the two men standing behind a table examining a scientific apparatus. The frame is…
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Damenkapelle für Kindersymphonie
Box 21- 1900
Black and white photograph of a group of men gathered around a laboratory table. All are dressed in bonnets and ruffled dresses and some hold toy instruments. The photo's caption reads "Damenkapelle für…
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Chemists in a physical chemistry laboratory at the University of Leipzig
Box 21- Circa 1900
Sepia-toned photograph of three chemists at work in the physical chemistry lab at the University of Leipzig. Chemists in the photograph are identified by handwritten inscriptions on the photo from left to right as…
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Bücher-Zettel an die Buchhandlung Gustav Fock
- Book-slip to the Gustav Fock Bookstore
Box 3, Folder 5- Circa 1900
Mail in order postcard for the Gustav Fock Bookstore. Karl Heinrich Gustav Fock (1854-1910) was a bookseller and publisher, specializing in books on physical, chemical and mathematical subjects.
- Creator Of Work Buchhandlung Gustav Fock
- Subject Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, Science publishing, Bookstores
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Arthur von Oettingen's personal calling card
Box 3, Folder 18- Circa 1900
Calling card belonging to Arthur von Oettingen (1836-1920) a German physicist and music theorist. Includes note written to Georg Bredig (1868-1944).
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Letter from Clemens Winkler to Georg Bredig, December 1900
Box 2, Folder 70- 1900-Dec-10 – 1900-Dec-10
Clemens Winkler (1838-1904), a German chemist known for his discovery of the element germanium, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for sending his treatise "Ueber anorganische Fermente" (On Inorganic Ferments), which was…
- Author Winkler, Clemons, 1838-1904
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Winkler, Clemens Alexander, 1838-1904
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Letter from Willem Reinders to Georg Bredig
Box 2, Folder 41- 1900-Nov-15
Willem Reinders (1874-1949), a Dutch chemist and colleague of Georg Bredig (1868-1944), gives his permission to cite their joint publication in Georg Bredig's habilitation thesis "Anorganische Fermente" (Inorganic…
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Author Reinders, Willem, 1874-1949
- Subject Chemistry, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Reinders, Willem, 1874-1949, Chemistry, Inorganic
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Letter from Georg Hermann Quincke to Georg Bredig, October 1900
Box 2, Folder 38- 1900-Oct-30
Georg Hermann Quincke (1832-1924), a German physicist, requests that Georg Bredig (1868-1944) choose a scientific instrument from a catalogue that measures amperes and have it sent to Quincke at the University of…
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Postcard from Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kistiakowsky to Georg Bredig
Box 2, Folder 28- 1900-Oct-08
Postcard from Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kistiakovskii (1868-1952) to Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Kistiakovskii was a Soviet physical chemist who studied in Leipzig.
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Letter from Pierre Duhem to Georg Bredig, January 1900
Box 1, Folder 33- 1900-Jul-25
Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a French theoretical physicist, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for sending his work on catalytic actions. Duhem additionally requests that Bredig return his French essays on hysteresis, which…
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Article review by Heinrich Jakob Bechhold
Box 5, Folder 6- 1900-Jul-04
Heinrich Jakob Bechhold (1866-1937) was a German chemist most known for his work with colloids in medicine. In 1911 he became the director of "The Institute for Colloid Research" in Frankfurt, Germany.
- Author Bechhold, Heinrich, 1866-1937
- Subject Bechhold, Heinrich, 1866-1937, Chemistry, Colloids