Editing Emil Erlenmeyer (section)

{{short description|German chemist (1825&ndash;1909)}}
{{For|his son sometimes known as Emil Jr.|Friedrich Gustav Carl Emil Erlenmeyer}}
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| name              = Emil Erlenmeyer
| image             = Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer-1.jpeg
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| caption           = Erlenmeyer before 1909
| birth_name        = Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1825|6|28|df=y}}
| birth_place       = Wehen, Duchy of Nassau, today [[Taunusstein]], Germany
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1909|1|22|1825|6|28|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Aschaffenburg]], [[German Empire]]
| nationality       = German
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| field             = [[Organic chemistry]]
| work_institutions = [[Technical University of Munich|Munich Polytechnic School]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Gießen]]
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| known_for         = [[Erlenmeyer flask]]<br />Erlenmeyer rule
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'''Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer''' (28 June 1825 – 22 January 1909), known simply as '''Emil Erlenmeyer''', was a German [[chemist]] known for contributing to the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule. He also designed the [[Erlenmeyer flask]], a specialized apparatus ubiquitous in chemistry laboratories, which is named after him.<ref name=r1>{{cite journal|title=Obituary notices: Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, 1838–1906; Emil Erlenmeyer, 1825–1909; Rudolph Fittig, 1835–1910; Hans Heinrich Landolt, 1831–1910; Nikolai Alexandrovitsch Menschutkin, 1842–1907; Sir Walter Palmer, Bart., 1858–1910|journal=J. Chem. Soc., Trans.|year= 1911|volume= 99|pages= 1646–1668|doi=10.1039/CT9119901646 |author=Otto N. Witt}}</ref>