Karl Friedrich Mohr

Well, today I’m gonna write about a known pharmaceutical chemist, Karl Friedrich Mohr, a German pharmacist. He was born in 1806, in Coblenza, Germany, he was the son of a pharmacist what may explain his interest in this field. At the age of twenty one he began his studies of pharmacy in the Heidelberg University, finishing them in the Berlin University.
When his father died he inherited his father’s pharmacy. He’s considered the father of volumetric analysis, due to his research needs, he did create and improve some laboratory instruments, he improved the burette which improvement was a clamp called Mohr’s clip, which helped to restrict the flow of gasses and liquids through the simple burette, and actually it is used in flexible tubes. He also helped in the creation of the hydrostatic balance named Mohr-Westphal, used in the laboratory to determinate the densities of liquids. , there’s even a salt that has his name in honor for his advances in chemical assessments.
Besides this inventions he did also contribute in many other fields, like in physics where he did publish a paper and gave one of the earliest general statements about the energy conservation, meteorology, geology, among others. He died in September 28th, 1879.