Home List categories Eponyms A-Z Biographies by country ... Contact Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice. This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor. A recommendation: Hypography is an open community about science and all things related Leopold Gmelin German physiological chemist, born August 2, 1788, Göttingen; died April 13, 1853, Heidelberg. Associated eponyms: Gmelin's test Simple, qualitative method for demonstrating bilirubin in urine. Rosenbach's test A test for bile in the urine using nitric acid. Biography: Leopold Gmelin was born in Heidelberg into a famous family of physicians and naturalists, descending from the Tübingen pharmacist Johann Georg Gmelin (1674-1728). His father was the physician and philosopher Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804). Gmelin obtained his doctorate in 1812 in Göttingen, becoming Privatdozent in 1813, extraordinary professor 1814, and full professor of medicine and chemistry in 1817, establishing chemistry as an independent discipline at that university. Of particular importance are his investigations with Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861). He resigned from his professorship in 1851 and died two years later. In 1852 he was succeeded by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899). | |
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