1. Bohuslav Brauner was a Czech chemist from the University of Prague, who investigated the properties of the rare earth elements, especially the determination of their atomic weights.
10 Facts About Bohuslav Brauner
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Bohuslav Brauner was a student of Robert Bunsen at the University of Heidelberg and later of Henry Roscoe at the University of Manchester.
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Bohuslav Brauner became lecturer for chemistry at the Charles University of Prague in 1883, assistant professor as of 1890, and full professor as of 1897.
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Bohuslav Brauner retired from the Charles University of Prague in 1925 and died of pneumonia in 1935.
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Bohuslav Brauner proposed that the element tellurium had an atomic weight of 125 atomic mass units, although he acknowledged that his evaluation of tellurium could be based on mixtures of metals.
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Later, Bohuslav Brauner obtained samples of the substance referred to as didymium.
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Bohuslav Brauner concluded that didymium was actually a mixture of two rare earth elements.
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Bohuslav Brauner authored the chapter on rare earth elements in Mendeleev's textbook "Principles of Chemistry".
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Bohuslav Brauner wrote the portion on atomic weights in "Handbuch der Anorganischen Chemie", which was a textbook authored principally by Richard Abegg.
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Bohuslav Brauner received honorary memberships to the Chemical Society of London, the American Chemical Society and the Societe Chimique de France, and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Manchester.