Biography:Richard Abegg
| Richard Abegg
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| Fields | Chemistry |
| Known for | Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. |
Richard Abegg is a biographical subject in the ScholarlyWiki science collection. Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (9 January 1869 – 3 April 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight.[1]
Work and context
This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. He was a gas balloon enthusiast, which caused his death at the age of 41 when he crashed in his balloon in Silesia.
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References
- ↑ "Richard Abegg". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Abegg.
External links
Author: Harold Foppele
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