Biography:Richard Abegg

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Richard Abegg
Richard Abegg
Richard Abegg


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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Author: Harold Foppele


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