Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz

Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (1817 – 1880) was a German structural chemist who earned his PhD at Berlin in 1844 under Heinrich Rose. He was one of six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the only chemist.

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In 1853 he analyzed margaric acid as simply a combination of stearic acid and of the previously unknown palmitic acid.^{[citation needed]}

At Halle, Heintz supervised Johannes Wislicenus PhD work, although Wislicenus' pro-forma advisor at Zurich. was Georg Karl Andreas Städeler.

The mineral Heintzite is named for him.

References

1. Partington, J. R. A History of Chemistry; Macmillan: 1964; vol. 4, p359.
2. Nature 1881, 23, 245-246.
3. Chem. Ber. 1883, 16, 3121-3140.
4. Poggendorf I: pp. 1051-52
5. Lehrbuch der Zoochemie. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1853