Gottlieb Kirchhoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian chemist
Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1764
Place of Birth: Teterow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Date of Death: 04-Feb-1833
Profession: pharmacist, chemist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Gottlieb Kirchhoff
- Gottlieb Sigismund Constantin Kirchhoff (19 February 1764 – 14 February 1833) was a Russian chemist of German origin.
- In 1792–1802, Assistant Director and then Director of the Head Pharmacy at Saint Petersburg.
- Corresponding member (1807–1812) and since 1812 Full member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Russia).
- In 1811, he became the first person to convert starch into a sugar (corn syrup), by heating it with sulfuric acid in acid-catalyzed reaction.
- This sugar was eventually named glucose.
- He also developed a method of refining vegetable oil, and established a factory that prepared two tons of refined oil a day.Since the sulfuric acid was not consumed, it was the first documented example of catalysis in organic chemistry.
- (A term that Jöns Jacob Berzelius would later coin.)
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