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In 1912 I went to a book sale and bought ten books for fifty cents. One of the books was by Ostwald The Scientific Foundations of Analytical Chemistry. Ostwald wrote at the beginning of that book that analytical chemists are the maidservants of other chemists. This made quite an impression on me, because I didn't want to be a maidservant.
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Anyone who has acquired sufficient skill to make an exact analysis satisfactorily can adapt himself to the performance of a less accurate one — but the reverse is not true.
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Izaak Kolthoff
Born:
February 11, 1894
Died:
March 4, 1993
(aged 99)
Bio:
Izaak Maurits (Piet) Kolthoff was a highly influential analytical chemist and chemical educator.
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