Rudolf Christian Böttger [SEP] date of death
Rudolf Christian Böttger
Rudolf Christian Böttger (28 April 1806 – 29 April 1881) was a German inorganic chemist. He conducted most of his research at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He is credited with discovery of nitrocellulose in 1846, independently to Schönbein, and with the synthesis of the first organocopper compound copper(I) acetylide CuC in 1859.
Life and work.
Böttger was born in Aschersleben, Germany in 1806. After attending the primary school there he joined the school of the Franksche Stiftung in Halle an der
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- Oskar Boettger (1844–1910), German zoologist
- Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), German chemist
- Thomas Böttger (born 1957), German composer and pianist
See also.
- 5194 Böttger, an asteroid