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PROF. THEODOR CURTIUS, emeritus professor of chemistry in the University of Heidelberg, died at Heidelberg on Feb. 9 in his seventy-first year. Curtius, who was well known as the discoverer of hydrazine, hydrazoic acid and the azides, discovered also the method of obtaining aliphatic diazo-compounds. Lead azide, which he first prepared, soon became an important substitute for mercury fulminate as a detonator.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 121, 546 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121546a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121546a0