Lowig, Carl

Carl Lowig was born at Kreuznach on March 17, 1803. In his youth he studied pharmacy, but his later study was confined entirely to chemistry. He continued his investigation of the compounds of bromine for several years, and in 1829 published a monograph on Bromine and Its Chemical Relations. ... 

Carl Lowig, 1803-1890. Professor of chemistry at Heidelberg, Zurich, and Breslau. He prepared bromine in 1825, but before his investigation was completed Balard had announced the discovery. Lowig discovered bromine hydrate, bromal hydrate, and bromoform, and was the founder of the Silesian chemical industry and of the Goldschmieden alumina works at Deutsch-Lissa. 

Mar. 17, 1803 1803 Birth of Carl Lowig, independent discoverer of bromine. Klaproth, Berzelius, and Hisinger analyze cerite and discover the earth ceria. 

The forefather of the chemistry of organic compounds of tin and lead was the Swiss chemist Carl Lowig. In the middle of the nineteenth century in the Zurich University laboratory (which was not set up to handle toxic compounds), he developed for the first time several methods for the synthesis of common organic derivatives of these two elements and described their properties41-44. 

Bromine was discovered, at almost the same time in 1826, by two men, German chemist Carl Lowig (1803—1890) and French chemist Antoine-Jerome Balard (1802—1876). Although Balard announced his discovery first, Lowig had simply not completed his smdies of the element when Balard made his announcement. 

Bromine was discovered by a German student named Carl Lowig. Lowig produced a sample for his professor that he collected from a spring in his home town. A year later, Antoine-Jerome Balard isolated bromine from seawater and presented it to the French Academy in 1826. 

Antoine-Jerome Balard published information about his discovery and described the new element in 1826 in Annales de Chimie et de Physique. He was credited with the discovery, but it is fair to say that part of the priority ought to be given to Carl Lowig. 

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