Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist who had a heavy hand in pioneering the development of the periodic table of elements. Meyer worked with both Dmitri Mendeleev and Robert Bunsen to create the periodic table. Meyer never used his given first name, preferring to go by Lothar Meyer his whole life.
Meyer was born in Varel, Germany to parents August Meyer and Anna Biermann. He was a bright student and went on to study medicine at the University of Zurich in 1851. Two years later he attended the University of Würzburg where he studied pathology as a student under Rudolf Virchow. After graduating as a doctor of medicine at Würzburg, he went to the University of Heidelberg, where Bunsen held the chair of chemistry. In 1858 he received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Breslau with a thesis on the effects of carbon monoxide on blood.
Meyer's most notable accomplishment was his work on the periodic table. He mentioned that if each element is arranged in the order of their atomic weights, they fall into groups of similar chemical and physical properties. He also drew up an early version of the periodic table in his book, Die modernen Theorien der Chemie that contained a mere twenty-eight elements. He began this book while he was still at Breslau.
Meyer died from a stroke at the age of 64 on April 11th, 1895.
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