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PROF. RICHARD I. MEYER, whose death, at the age of seventy-four years, occurred on June 18, was one of the best known inorganic chemists in Germany. Born in Berlin on August 24, 1865, he built up a reputation early in life by his researches on rare earths, thallium and scandium; his discovery of scandium in tungsten and tin slags enabled him to produce this element—then considered one of the rarest—in sufficient quantity for its thorough chemical and physical investigation. From 1897 onwards, for twenty-five years, Meyer was associated with Prof. Arthur Rosenheim in Berlin in the conduct of a private scientific chemical laboratory in which, under the guidance of these two men, university students carried out valuable research work in inorganic chemistry—a branch of chemistry frequently neglected in the official university laboratories in Germany, which were almost without exception directed by organic chemists.
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Prof. R. I. Meyer. Nature 144, 1005 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441005a0
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