Wilhelm Biltz
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Wilhelm Biltz
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| Born |
March 8, 1877 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | November 13, 1943 (aged 66) Heidelberg, Germany |
| Residence | Germany, |
| Nationality | German |
| Institutions |
University of Göttingen, Clausthal University of Technology, University of Hanover, |
| Alma mater | University of Greifswald |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler, |
| Doctoral students | Werner Fischer, |
| Known for |
Colloid-Chemistry Thermal analysis of non-metallic systems |
Wilhelm Biltz (March 8, 1877 in Berlin – November 13, 1943 in Heidelberg) was a German chemist and scientific editor.
In addition to his scholarly work, Biltz is noted for commanding the principal German tank involved in the first ever tank-on-tank battle in history at the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux.
Wilhelm Biltz was the son of Karl Friedrich Biltz who was a literary scholar and theatre critic. His brother Heinrich Biltz also became a noted chemist.
After his university entrance diploma at the Royal Grammar School (Königliches Wilhelm-Gymnasium) in Berlin in 1895 and influenced by his elder brother Heinrich, he began studying chemistry in the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and continued his studies in 1898 with professor Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler in the University of Greifswald where he was awarded his doctorate in natural science with research on the chemistry of Terpenes.
From 1900 he worked as an assistant and from 1903 as an associate professor with Otto Wallach at the University of Göttingen. There he concentrated his work firstly on the determination of vapour density in solutions of inorganic compounds and later he was engaged in researches into the chemistry of colloids. He gained further scientific and practical experiences in the university research institute of Clemens Winkler in analytical and inorganic chemistry and later in Metallurgy in Göttingen with Gustav Tamman. During these years he also investigated the influence of temperature on the properties of non-metallic systems as for example Polysulfides of Rubidium and Caesium by the use of thermal analysis.
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