Richard Willstatter Quotes:
Ocupation: Chemist
Life: August 13, 1872 - August 3, 1942
Birthday: August 13
Death: August 3
I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.
source: Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
topic: Flames, Hands, Iodine, Magnesium
