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PROF. AUGUST FRIEDRICH HORSTMANN, a pioneer in the field of physical chemistry, whose investigations of the thermodynamics of chemical processes are well known, died recently in Heidelberg at eighty-seven years of age. We are indebted to the Chemiker-Zeitung for the following details of his career. Born at Mannheim in 1842, Horstmann studied under Bunsen and Kirchhoff at Heidelberg, where he was appointed extra-ordinary professor in 1872 and honorary professor in 1889. He conducted numerous researches upon dissociation, vapour-pressure, combustion, chemical equilibria, and solutions, but for very many years his active participation in scientific research was prevented by almost complete blindness. His thermodynamical studies of chemical processes were published in Ostwald's “lassiker der Naturwissenschaft” edited by Prof. van't Hoff.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 124, 732 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124732b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124732b0