Who is Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge’s? Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge is a German analytical chemist whose place in history resulted in large part from an accident followed by a chance encounter. Runge was born outside of Hamburg on this day in 1795. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge’s expressed interest in chemistry from an early age and began conducting experiments as a teenager. Work of Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge’s During one such experiment, Runge accidentally splashed a drop of belladonna extract in Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge’s eye, taking note of its pupil-dilating effects. Ten years later, while studying under renown chemist and inventor Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner at the University of Jena, Runge was asked to reproduce belladonna’s effects s part of a demonstration for one of Döbereiner’s friends: the writer and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Impressed by the 25-year-old chemist, Goethe handed Runge a bag of rare coffee beans and suggested he a...
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