Leopold Gmelin
Leopold Gmelin
Born	August 2, 1788(1788-08-02) Göttingen, Germany
Died	April 13, 1853 (aged 64) Heidelberg, Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	chemistry
Institutions	University of Heidelberg,
Influences	Friedrich Stromeyer

Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist.

Gmelin was the son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin. He studied medicine and chemistry at Göttingen, Tübingen and Vienna, and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg, where in 1814 he was appointed extraordinary-, and in 1817 ordinary-, professor of chemistry and medicine. He was the discoverer of potassium ferricyanide (1822), and wrote the Handbuch der Chemie (first edition 1817–1819, 4th ed. 1843-1855), an important work in its day, which was translated into English for the Cavendish Society by H. Watts (1815–1884) in 1848- 1850. He resigned his chair in 1852, and died in Heidelberg.

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Bernd Wöbke (1988). "Das Portrait: Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853)". Chemie in unserer Zeit 22 (6): 208–216. doi:10.1002/ciuz.19880220605. 

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