Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch alchemist (1604-1670) · Scientists · Died at 66
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Something wrong?He found a salt that still carries his name. Glauber's 1625 isolation of sodium sulfate made him a fixture in chemistry textbooks, and some call him one of the first chemical engineers - a bridge figure when alchemy was starting to tip toward something more systematic.
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Johann Rudolf Glauber was born on 10 March 1604, working in an era when the line between alchemist and chemist was still blurred. In 1625 he isolated sodium sulfate, a compound that would be named Glauber's salt in his honor. His approach to chemistry - practical, process-oriented - led some historians to label him among the first chemical engineers, a forerunner who saw the craft as more than transmutation. He died on 16 March 1670, leaving a name attached to a mineral and a claim on the profession's early scaffolding.
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