Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Also known as Richard Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian chemist who lived from 1865 to 1929 and made important discoveries in the field of colloid chemistry. His work on understanding the structure and behavior of very small particles suspended in liquids earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and helped establish colloid chemistry as a fundamental area of scientific study.
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- Chemistry of Colloids, Parts 1-2
- Colloids and the ultramicroscope
- Colloids and the ultramicroscope
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- Hungary
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- 1922-04-09
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- 2014-02-15
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Hungarian: Zsigmondy Richárd Adolf; 1 April 1865 – 23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.
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1865 births1929 deaths20th-century Austrian chemists20th-century Hungarian chemists20th-century Hungarian inventors20th-century Hungarian physicistsAcademic staff of the Graz University of TechnologyAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinAcademic staff of the University of GöttingenAustrian Nobel laureatesAustrian people of Hungarian descent