Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Lothar Meyer
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Quizzes
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Related Questions
Read Next
Chemical equations Chemical reactions chemistry
How Do You Balance a Chemical Equation?
Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium
When Was the Periodic Table Invented?
Illustration of molecules. (molecular, chemistry, science)
Why Is a Group of Molecules Called a Mole?
Above the clouds 130 nautical miles below, astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely without tethers as he tests the new Simplified Aid for Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Spacewalk Rescue (SAFER) system, Sept. 16, 1994. Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-64
Gravity: From Apples to the Universe
Discover
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
Orange basketball on black background and with low key lighting. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
6 Important Mughal Emperors
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles
Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

Lothar Meyer: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Lothar-Meyer
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Julius Lothar Meyer
Born August 19, 1830 • Germany
Died April 11, 1895 (aged 64) • Tübingen • Germany
Notable Works “Die Modernen Theorien der Chemie”
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • periodic table
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Frederick Soddy
British chemist
Theodore William Richards
American chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
Swiss chemist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science