Antal Ruprecht

Antal Ruprecht (1748-1818) was a Hungarian Chemist.

Antal Ruprecht
Born1748
Szomolnok, Hungary
(today Smolník, Slovakia)
Died1818
Vienna, Austria
CitizenshipHungarian
Alma materMining Academy of Selmecbánya/Schemnitz
Scientific career
InstitutionsMining Academy of Selmecbánya/Schemnitz

Biography

Ruprecht was born in Szomolnok, Hungary in 1748. He graduated from the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya where he later became a professor of chemistry and metallurgy in 1779. He was the first to melt platinum and contributed to the discovery of tellurium in 1784.[1][2] Ruprecht was the first to theorise that alkaline earth metals were compounds rather than elements; later proved by Humphry Davy.[3] This theory caused some controversy in the chemistry community due to the previous assumption of earths being fundamental substances.[4]

gollark: CGoL can simulate itself, that doesn't mean it runs independently of a computer running it.
gollark: Stuff is seemingly not magically self-computing. At least, I haven't seen algorithms somehow run themselves.
gollark: That is a good question. "I think therefore I am" and all, but that really only implies that in some form "I" am running on some kind of processing hardware which can do consciousness, whether it is my foolish mortal brain in a universe with quarks and everything or a simulation of that on, I don't know, some kind of massive cellular automaton.
gollark: Well, the computer and jar have to physically exist in some form.
gollark: Besides that, the bee-image is quite clearly distinguishable from a bee in many ways.

References
  1. "Ruprecht, Antal (1748-1818)". European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  2. Görög, Sándor (2002). "Chemistry in Hungary". Nachrichten aus der Chemie. 50 (6): 712–715. doi:10.1002/nadc.20020500612.
  3. Nagaiyar Krishnamurthy & Chiranjib Kumar Gupta (2004). Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths. CRC Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0203413029.
  4. Ferenc Szabadvary (1993). History of Analytical Chemistry. CRC Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-2881245695.
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