Soren sorensen biography channel

(b.

Soren sorensen biography channel

Havrebjerg, Slagelse, Denmark, 9 January 1868; d. Copenhagen, Denmark, 12 February (1939)

chemistry.

The son of a farmer, Sørensen was educated at the high school at Sorø and entered the University of Copenhagen at the age of eighteen.

He planned to study medicine; but under the influence of S. M. Jorgensen, an important investigator of inorganic complex compounds, he chose chemistry for his career, While at the university Sørensen received two gold medals, the first for a paper on the concept of the chemical radical and the second for a study of strontium compounds.

While working for the doctorate he assisted in a geological survey of Denmark, acted as assistant in chemistry at the laboratory of the Danish Polytechnic Institute, and served as a consultant at the royal naval dockyard.

His doctoral dissertation (1899) concerned the chemistry of cobaltic oxides. Thus most of his training was in inorganic chemistry.

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