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| | Too Many “Friedrich Wilhelms” |
 | | (Wilhelm Weber is the namesake of the SI unit of magnetic flux.) |
 | | Not to mention his brother, Wilhelm, a noted writer, philologist, and statesman in his own right — who was actually Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt. |
 | | Then there are people like the druggist Friedrich Wilhelm Sertürner, who isolated morphine from opium, and coined the term “alkaloid”; or the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, whom Goethe called “the most congenial philosopher I know.” Or the physicist Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch, whose very accurate measurements helped establish the national standards laboratories. |
| mintaka.sdsu.edu /GF/bibliog/library/FW.html (773 words) |
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