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NUMEROUS friends and pupils of Prof. Bohuslav Brauner, the illustrious Director of the Chemical Institute of the Charles University of Prague, have signalised his seventieth birthday by issuing this splendid volume of researches in his honour. It opens with a most delightful “Hommage au Professeur Bohuslav Brauner” written by Prof. Urbain and entitled “Discours sur les elements chimiques et les atomes.” In this brilliant essay, the author, in tracing the development of scientific research concerning the chemical elements and the nature of the atoms, shows the fundamental character of Prof. Brauner's work in the fields of the rare earths, the atomic weights, and the Periodic System of Mendeleeff. Whilst every one is familiar with Prof. Brauner's long and splendid series of researches on the atomic weights, it is well that the younger chemists of the present generation should be reminded of the fact that he it was who discovered that the old “didymium” was in reality a mixture of two elements, neodymium and praseodymium.
Recueil des travaux chimiques des Pays-Bas.
Publié par la Société Chimique Néerlandaise. Tome 44 (4e Série, T. 6), No. 5, Mai. Numéro jubilaire en l'honneur du Professeur Bohuslav Brauner, publié par ses amis et élèves en commémoration de son 70e anniversaire, 1855—8 Mai—1925. Pp. 281–628. (Amsterdam: S.A. d'Éditions scientifiques D. B. Centen, 1925.)
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DONNAN, F. The Brauner Jubilee Volume. Nature 115, 975 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115975a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115975a0