Carl Auer von Welsbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Auer von Welsbach

Austrian scientist and inventor

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1858

Place of Birth: Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia

Date of Death: 04-Aug-1929

Profession: physicist, inventor, chemist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carl Auer von Welsbach, also known as Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach (1 September 1858 – 4 August 1929) was an Austrian scientist and inventor, who had a talent not only for discovering advances, but also for turning them into commercially successful products.
He is particularly well known for his work on rare-earth elements, which led to the development of the ferrocerium "flints" used in modern lighters, the gas mantle, which brought light to the streets of Europe in the late 19th century, and for the development of the metal-filament light bulb.