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THE Chemiker-Zeitung reports the death on January 6, at the age of sixty-eight, of Dr. Wilhelm Borchers, professor of metallurgy and electrometallurgy at the Technische Hochschule of Aix-la-Chapelle. Borchers was born at the university town of Erlangen, and after completing his studies there, he spent the next four years in a chemical factory as process chemist. The experience thus gained was of immense value to him in his later career as an investigator, for it enabled him to bring to a successful conclusion many difficult re searches in the field of electrometallurgy. In 1891 he was appointed lecturer in chemistry and metallurgy at Duisburg, and six years later he was transferred to the Hochschule at Aix-la-Chapelle. His chief interest lay in the application of electrolytic processes to metal lurgical problems, such as the production of metallic calcium, strontium, titanium, cerium, etc. He also conducted numerous researches on the preparation and properties of alloys. Prof. Borchers was the author of several books on electrochemistry, and in 1894 he founded the Zeitschrift fur Elektrochemie, which he edited until 1900. He also collaborated with Nernst in publishing the Jahrbuch der Elektrochemie.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 272 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115272a0
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