Leopold Gmelin

Leopold Gmelin was a German chemist. Gmelin was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which over successive editions became a standard reference work still in use.

2 August 1788

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Born in the same month (August 1788): Adoniram Judson