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THE Chemiker Zeitung records in a recent issue the life and work of Dr. Richard Escales, who died on September 9 at Munich. Dr. Escales' name will be remembered chiefly in connexion with his work on explosives. He was born on July 8, 1863, at Zweibriicken, where his father owned a textile factory. After studying at Wurzburg, Munich, Erlangen, and Zurich, he graduated in 1886, and for a while was engaged in his father's business. Somewhat later he returned to Munich in order to undertake the study of explosives in the laboratory of Adolph von Baeyer, and in 1898 he discovered ammonal, a high explosive containing aluminium powder, which played a prominent part in the War. He sold the patent rights of this discovery for an inconsiderable sum in Vienna. In 1902 he founded an experimental station for explosives at Munich, where during the War he acted as director of the department of “Minenwerfer.” He compiled a seven-volume standard work on explosives and was the founder and publisher of the Zeitschrift fiir das gesamte Schiess- und Sprengstoffwesen.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 389 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115389b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115389b0