Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
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Austrian chemist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on colloids and co-invented the slit-ultramicroscope. His visibility extends to the Moon, where a crater bears his name.
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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.
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