Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs

Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs (28. July 1885, Stützerbach – 1958) (also published as Fritz Friedrichs) was a German chemist.

Fritz, was a son of Ferdinand and Olga Friedrichs, born Reinhardt. He is the inventor of the spiral cold finger-type condenser, now most commonly known as a Friedrichs condenser, which he described in a 1912 article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.[1][2] Friedrichs was instrumental in the standardization of chemical apparatus in Europe.[3][4]

References

1. Unknown. "Hopkins & Davies wanted; Cribb found." A Synthetic Environment (Internet blog). 1 February 2007 (retrieved from syntheticenvironment.blogspot.com on 10 April 2007).
2. Friedrichs, Fritz (1912). "Some New Forms of Laboratory Apparatus". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 34 (11): 1509–1514. doi:10.1021/ja02212a012.
3. Sella, Andrea (2019). "Friedrichs' Joints". Chemistry World. Vol. 16, no. 8.
4. "The story of Quickfit, part two: Flaig's joints". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2024-02-28.