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Lothar Meyer

German physician and chemist (1830–1895)

For the German footballer, see Lothar Meyer (footballer).

Julius Lothar Meyer (19 August 1830 – 11 April 1895) was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (his chief rival) and he had both worked with Robert Bunsen. Meyer never used his first given name and was known throughout his life simply as Lothar Meyer.

Career

Meyer was born in Varel, Germany (then part of the Duchy of Oldenburg). He was the son of Friedrich August Meyer, a physician, and Anna Biermann. After attending the Altes Gymnasium in Oldenburg, he studied medicine at the University of Zurich in 1851. Two years later, he studied pathology at the University of Würzburg as a student of Rudolf Virchow. At Zurich, he had studied under Carl Ludwig, which had prompted him to devote his attention to physiological chemistry. After graduating as a Doctor of Medicine from Würzburg in 1854, he went to Heidelberg University, where Rob

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Meyer was born in Varel, Oldenburg. After gaining an M.D. in 1854, he became interested in the gas analysis work of Robert Bunsen. Meyer joined Bunsen’s laboratory at Heidelberg for four months. During his stay, Meyer’s interests broadened from medicine to physiological chemistry and physical chemistry.

In autumn of 1856, Meyer followed his brother Oskar Emil Meyer to Königsberg to enrol to Franz Neumann’s mathematico-physical seminar. By the time Meyer joined the seminar, Neumann had already been running it for 22 years. Neumann’s central aim was to show his students that theories could help in assessing errors in experiments. The error analysis methods that Neumann taught his students included analytic determination of constant (or systematic) errors and the computation of accidental (or random) errors by the method of least squares.

In the Königsberg seminar, Neumann instructed students to consider the relationship between theory and experiment. Theories could aid in making experiments more accurate and precise. This idea of the helpfulness of theories for empirical inves

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Professor Lothar Meyer

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JULIUS LOTHAR MEYER was born at Varel in Oldenburg, on August 19, 1830. After completing his school course in the Gymnasium. he studied in the University of Zurich from 1851 to 1853, then at Wurzburg from 1853 to 1854; from Wurzburg he went to Heidelberg, where he remained till the autumn of 1856, and from thence he migrated to Konigsberg, where he remained until Easter 1858. Meyer's original intention was to devote himself to medicine, and he graduated as Doctor in Medicine at Wurzburg on February 24, 1854. At Heidelberg he came under the influence of Buiisen, and his work became more and more chemical. At Konigsberg his studies were devoted mainly to mathematical physics, under the guidance of F. Neumann. In 1858 he took the degree of Ph.D. at Breslau; and on February 21, 18