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Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann
1861Jun, 9

Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann

Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1861 – 17 December 1938) was a prominent Baltic German chemist-physicist who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy.

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