William Dittmar ( 1833 - 1892 )

Birth: Umstadt, near Darmstadt, Germany (14 or 15 April 1833) Death: Glasgow (09 or 10 March 1892) Research Field: Chemistry Career: Assistant to Bunsen; went to England with Sir Henry Roscoe (FRS 1863); Assistant to Lyon Playfair (FRS 1848), Edinburgh; Assistant to Alexander Crum Brown (FRS 1879), Edinburgh; Professor of Chemistry, Anderson's College, Glasgow.