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Wilhelm Klemm

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German chemist (1896-1985)

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Wilhelm Karl Klemm was an inorganic and physical chemist. Klemm did extensive work on intermetallic compounds, rare earth metals, transition elements and compounds involving oxygen and fluorine. He and Heinrich Bommer were the first to isolate elemental erbium (1934) and ytterbium (1936).

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1967honorary doctor of the University of Lille
1965doctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon
1965honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
1963Carl Duisberg Plaque
1958Centenary Prize
1951Liebig Medal
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Wilhelm Karl Klemm was an inorganic and physical chemist. Klemm did extensive work on intermetallic compounds, rare earth metals, transition elements and compounds involving oxygen and fluorine. He and Heinrich Bommer were the first to isolate elemental erbium (1934) and ytterbium (1936). Klemm refined Eduard Zintl's ideas about the structure of intermetallic compounds and their connections to develop the Zintl-Klemm concept.

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Germany
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1896 to 1985 · aged 89
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