1. Alfred Stock did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning.
12 Facts About Alfred Stock
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Alfred Stock was given the task of synthesizing still unknown compounds of boron and silicon.
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From February 6,1936, to May 7,1938 Alfred Stock was the president of the German Chemical Society.
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Alfred Stock was renowned for his pioneering research on boron hydrides.
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Alfred Stock performed similar work on the hydrides of silicon.
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In 1921, Alfred Stock first prepared metallic beryllium by electrolyzing a fused mixture of sodium and beryllium fluorides.
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The "Alfred Stock system," first published in 1919, was a system of nomenclature on binary compounds.
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In 1934 Alfred Stock agreed to the use of Roman numerals but preferred keeping the hyphen and dropping the parentheses.
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Alfred Stock published over 50 papers on different aspects of mercury and mercury poisoning.
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Alfred Stock introduced sensitive tests and devised improved laboratory techniques for dealing with mercury which minimized poisoning risk, possibly initiated by his chronic mercury poisoning in 1923, due to his use of liquid mercury in some novel laboratory apparatus he invented.
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Alfred Stock became more vocal on protesting the mercury usage after realizing the toxicity of its organic derivatives.
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Alfred Stock died in Aken, a small town near Dessau, in August 1946 at the age of 70.