Ludwig Mond
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Dr Ludwig Mond (March 7, 1839 – December 11, 1909), was an important German-born British chemist and industrialist.
Born in Kassel, Mond attended universities in Marburg and Heidelberg to study chemistry and then came to England in 1862. His first great success was developing a method to recover sulfur from the by-products of the Leblanc process. In 1873, he joined with John Brunner to form Brunner, Mond and Company to use the Solvay process to make soda ash. Mond solved some of the problems in the Solvay process that made mass production difficult, and by 1880 he had turned it into a commercially sound process. Mond also discovered nickel carbonyl, which allowed for the extraction of pure nickel from its ores through the Mond process. He founded the Mond Nickel Company to exploit this find by linking nickel mines in Canada with refining operations in Wales. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891, and died in London. He bequeathed some of his old master paintings to the National Gallery, London.
He was the father of Alfred Mond.
[edit] External links
- Online biography
- Weintraub, Bob (2003). "Ludwig Mond: Great Chemist-Industrialist; Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett): Great Zionist Leader", Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society, Vol. 14, December, 2003, pp. 26-31. Online version retrieved December 13, 2006.
[edit] References
- ↑ Ludwig Mond, Carl Langer, Friedrich Quincke (1890). "Action of carbon monoxide on nickel". Journal of the Chemical Society: 749-753. DOI
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