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Chemists for the common good
Klein, Ursula
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- Title
- Chemists for the common good
- Author(s)
- Klein, Ursula
- Issue Date
- 2017-03-15
- Keyword(s)
- History
- Chemistry
- Date of Ingest
- 2025-04-22T14:21:44-05:00
- Abstract
- HIST Award address by Ursula Klein. Like their British, French and Swedish colleagues, the late eighteenth-century Prussian chemists performed technological experiments and works of invention. Franz Carl Achard transformed the laboratory of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences into a "beet factory" in order to test the production of beet sugar on a large technological scale. Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who had discovered uranium in 1789, performed experiments with a laboratory worker (Laborant) of the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory in order to prepare "uranium yellow" to be used as a pigment for decorating porcelain. The Prussian chemists argued for the usefulness of chemistry, and they further identified distinct parts of chemistry – "metallurgical chemistry," "technical chemistry," "applied chemistry" as well as analytical methods – that matched more directly with practical fields. In the eyes of these chemists, scientific knowledge was an indispensable part of technological innovation and progress, which would promote the economy of their "fatherland" and the "common good."
- Publisher
- Division of the History of Chemistry
- ISSN
- 1053-4385
- Type of Resource
- text
- Genre of Resource
- article
- Language
- eng
- Permalink
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2017v042p001
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2017 Division of the History of Chemistry
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