Johann Friedrich August Göttling
Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist.
Johann Friedrich August Gottling | |
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| Born | 5 June 1753 |
| Died | 1 September 1809 (aged 56) Jena, Saxe-Weimar |
| Nationality | German |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Christian Wiegleb |
| Doctoral students | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner |
Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets to supplement his meagre university salary. He studied the chemistry of sulphur, arsenic, phosphorus, and mercury. He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid. He was one of the first scientists in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and be in favor of the new chemistry of Lavoisier.
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