Lambert Heinrich von Babo

Lambert Heinrich Clemens von Babo ( born November 25, 1818 in Ladenburg / Neckar, † April 15, 1899 in Karlsruhe ) was a German chemist.

Life

Babo was the son of Joseph agronomists Lambert von Babo and his first wife Karoline Ehrmann. The viticulture scientists August Wilhelm von Babo was his half brother. After graduation Babo studied from 1837 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich Medicine and graduated in 1842 with a doctorate from Heidelberg. The following year, he began to study in Giessen Justus von Liebig in chemistry and completed this study in 1845 in Freiburg im Breisgau with his habilitation.

On September 6, 1847 in Freiburg Babo married Elise tree gardener. With her he had a daughter and two sons.

At the University of Freiburg became Babo from the lecturer in 1854 a full professor in 1859 and to Full Professor As such, he was also appointed as an expert witness at the grand-ducal courts. In 1883, he retired in.

Work

Babo certain the water vapor pressure and developed named after him Babo funnel for heating glass flasks. This consists of an inverted truncated cone of steel plate with radially disposed asbestos strips on the inner wall.

He did work on the structure of alkaloids, Isolation of choline and developed the arsenic determination for forensic examination. He established ozone from oxygen and developed a proof of piperidine.

Writings

• Arsenic poisoning cases ( 1844), together with R. Fresenius
• Centrifugal force (1852 )