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WE regret to announce the death of Dr. Karl Goldschmidt, chairman of the directors and for many years head of the executive of the firm of Th. Goldschmidt and Co., of Essen, who succumbed to an operation on January 5 at Stuttgart, at the age of sixty-eight. He and his brother, the late Prof. Hans Goldschmidt, were well known as the inventors of “thermit,” and in a recent monograph entitled “Aluminothermie,” Karl Goldschmidt has described fully the nature and importance of the thermit-reaction. The brothers inherited from their father a chemical manufacturing business, which they transferred from Berlin to Essen thirty-five years ago. Under the management of Karl Goldschmidt, the business developed enormously and in 1911 it became a public company.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 117, 165 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117165b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117165b0