Friedrich Stromeyer

Friedrich Stromeyer, also Strohmeyer, ( born August 2, 1776 in Göttingen; † August 18, 1835 ) was a German chemist.

Life and work

He was the son of Göttingen medical professor Ernst Johann Friedrich Stromeyer (1750-1830) and his wife Marie Johanne Magdalena Blum ( 1756-1848 ).

Stromeyer studied in the years 1793 to 1799 in Göttingen medicine. In 1800, he received his doctorate in this field. He was the predecessor of Friedrich Wöhler as a professor of chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He led in 1805 for the first time a chemical internship for students. In 1817 he discovered the chemical element cadmium. From 1806 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and since 1818 a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Stromeyer analyzed and described many minerals, so among other things also the first time the eudialyte and aragonite, calcite ( Iceland spar, calcite ), Aluminite, magnesite, Pikropharmakolith ( Picropharmacolit ), polyhalite, Vulpinit (variety of anhydrite ), strontianite, celestite, barite ( barite ) and further documented in Volume 1 of his 1821 published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht plant studies on the mixture of the mineral bodies and other relevant related substances.

Honors

• The mineral Stromeyerite (Silver chalcocite, silver gloss) was named after him.
• The prize is named after him and at 2500 euro award Friedrich Stromeyer Prize is awarded annually by the German Chemical Society.