Johann Florian Heller
Johann Florian Heller (4 May 1813 – 21 November 1871) was an Austrian chemist who was one of the founders of clinical chemistry.
Heller was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied chemistry in Prague and later with Liebig and Wöhler at Giessen.[1][2] During those studies he characterized rhodizonic acid and its potassium salt (1837).[3]
In 1844 Heller established a laboratory of
Also in 1844, Heller took over editorship of the recently founded Archiv für Physiologische und Pathologische Chemie und Mikroskopie, the first journal to deal exclusively with pathological chemistry; which stopped publication after six volumes, for lack of articles.[1]
The Austrian Association for Clinical Chemistry (ÖGKC) awards a scientific prize named after him.
An Austrian stamp was issued on 4 September 1981 with his portrait on the face.
References
- ^ a b c Louis Rosenfeld (1999), Four centuries of clinical chemistry. CRC Press. Online version accessed on 2009-07-30.
- ^ a b Giuliano dall'Olio (2008), Nuovo componente dei calcoli vescicali — L’ “urostealite ” di Heller. RIMeL - IJLaM, volume 4, issue 1, Società Italiana Medicina di Laboratorio.
- ^ Johann Florian Heller (1837), Die Rhodizonsäure, eine aus den Produkten der Kaliumbereitung gewonnene neue Säure, und ihre chemischen Verhältnisse, Justus Liebigs Annalen der Pharmacie, volume 24, issue 1, pp. 1–16. Online version accessed on 2009-07-08.
External links
[1] Portrait on the Austria 1981 issue for the 11th Congress on Chemical Clinic