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Definition: Zsigmondy

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929).[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Zsigmondy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1905. (references)

Common Expressions: Zsigmondy

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (April 1, 1865 in Vienna, Austrian Empire (now Austria) - September 23,1929 in Göttingen, Germany) was an Austrian-German chemist (his family was originally from Hungary) who studied colloids. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925. The Zsigmondy crater on the moon is named in his honor. (references)
Richard Adolph Zsigmondy German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Zsigmondy (crater) Zsigmondy is a lunar crater located beyond the northwest limb on the far side of the Moon. Attached to the southeast rim of the crater is the Omar Khayyam crater, which lies within the much larger Poczobutt crater. Further to the east, along the north rim of Poczobutt, is the Smoluchowski crater. (references)

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Extended Definition: Zsigmondy


Zsigmondy

Zsigmondy may refer to:

  • Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, a Nobel Prize chemist
  • Karl Zsigmondy, mathematician
  • Zsigmondy's theorem discovered by Karl Zsigmondy
  • Zsigmondy (crater) lunar crater named after Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zsigmondy"



Topics by Level of Interest: Zsigmondy

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 19     Karl Zsigmondy 6
Zsigmondy 12     Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 19
Zsigmondy (crater) 10     Zsigmondy 12
Karl Zsigmondy 6     Zsigmondy (crater) 10

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Synonym: Zsigmondy
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Richard Adolph Zsigmondy.
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